Orphaning and retiring HAL
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Tue Mar 15 13:06:17 UTC 2011
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:42:19PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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:
You haven't caught halevt. The binary depends on libhal.so.1 which
is provided directly or indirectly by hal, and the src depends on
hal-devel...
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Pat
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