Ubuntu likely to abandon HAL next cycle -- is this workable?

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Fri May 13 01:33:49 CDT 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48:23AM +0200, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 07:02 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> Udisks has regressed from the portability of HAL to being Linux-only,
> >> what are we going to do for BSDs/Solaris/others?
> > 
> > Of course even if we add udisks we'll keep the HAL support around. It's
> > necessary for backwards compatibility, which is something we take
> > seriously, unlike Ubuntu.
> > 
> 
> The distro position is that HAL has no upstream, is unmaintained, and
> conflicts with udisks/upower to the point where stuff starts breaking
> (eg, the battery monitor gets confused and reports you have 5% and 6
> hours left)

The truth is more:

- HAL upstream is the same as udisk upstream
- HAL was abandoned in favour of udisk.

ciao, Marcus



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