Orphaning and retiring HAL

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 12:42:19 UTC 2011


I'm planning to orphan the hal and hal-info packages in F15 and and
retire them in rawhide.

HAL has been dead upstream for 3 years now, and all development has
moved into udev, and the u* daemons like upower, udisks and urfkill.
The original maintainer and most of the original team want HAL dead.

The things that depend on HAL in F15 seem to be:

beldi-0:0.9.25-3.fc15.x86_64
blueman-0:1.21-7.fc15.x86_64
exaile-0:0.3.2.1-1.fc15.noarch
gnome-device-manager-libs-0:0.2-6.fc15.i686
libconcord-0:0.23-2.fc15.i686
lxsession-0:0.4.5-2.fc15.x86_64
matahari-0:0.4.0-0.1.8003b6c.git.fc15.1.x86_64
nut-0:2.6.0-3.fc15.x86_64
ovirt-server-installer-0:0.100-6.fc15.noarch
razertool-0:0.0.7-8.fc15.x86_64
xfce4-cddrive-plugin-0:0.0.1-4.fc15.x86_64

If somebody wants to maintain HAL in F15 be my guest, but be aware
it's a *huge* daemon doing lots of complex things as the root user.
It's probably quite a large undertaking. There are 28 open bugs, and
most of them are either architectural design problems, feature
requests or invalid:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=hal&product=Fedora

I will continue to maintain HAL in Fedora 13 and 14, and of course in
RHEL 4, 5 and 6.

Comments welcome,

Richard.


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