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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:41:21
Message-Id: 2990845.EWIttsqmb4@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore by Samuli Suominen
1 On Saturday, May 31, 2014 02:17:32 PM Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 31/05/14 05:47, Steven J. Long wrote:
3 > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:57:01AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
4 > >> On 27/05/14 08:34, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >>> Dnia 2014-05-26, o godz. 23:15:34
6 > >>>
7 > >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> napisał(a):
8 > >>>> UPower upstream removed sys-power/pm-utils support from 0.99 release
9 > >>>> (currently unkeyworded in tree), as in, from current git master.
10 > >>>
11 > >>> Don't worry. Looking at the past, I can guess this is only a temporary
12 > >>> inconvenience. I'm pretty sure upower will be discontinued soon
13 > >>> and replaced with systemd-powerd or something :D.
14 > >>
15 > >> That's more or less what they already did, they forced eg.
16 > >> xfce4-power-manager upstream
17 > >> to move the deleted pm-utils code from upower directly to the power
18 > >> manager (application)
19 > >> itself, likewise for xfce4-session
20 > >> Which means applications will now need to duplicate the pm-utils related
21 > >> code per application
22 > >> basis
23 > >> So I expect upower to be more or less dead for everything but systemd
24 > >> users, except for
25 > >> those upstreams that will actually follow the Xfce path and do the
26 > >> duplication
27 > >> Yet, still, small portition of the code is still 'generic', so
28 > >> xfce4-power-manager will still need
29 > >> both, upower, even 0.99, and then pm-utils, depending on the version,
30 > >> codepath is selected
31 > >>
32 > >> This was sort of expected, since pm-utils has been abandoned for ~5
33 > >> years now at upstream,
34 > >> so nobody is maintaining non-systemd related power management tools
35 > >> anymore, and
36 > >> falling back to eg. manual laptop-mode-tools, acpid, etc. usage will be
37 > >> necessary again,
38 > >> it's like going back to 90s for non-systemd users :P
39 > >
40 > > I can't believe I'm reading that from a distro-developer. Basically this
41 > > entire thread is "systemd is deprecating the existing tools, so let's dump
42 > > them and half our userbase back to the 90s, isn't that a great thing?"
43 >
44 > Then you misunderstood. Notice the ":P" as an indicator of sarcasm.
45 > I've already created sys-power/upower-pm-utils where the sys-power/pm-utils
46 > 0.9 git branch will continue to live.
47
48 Would have been nice to fix all the dependencies BEFORE marking the systemd-
49 depending "sys-power/upower-pm-utils" stable.
50
51 --
52 Joost

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