Orphaning and retiring HAL

[Nicola Soranzo]

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:
> 
> 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

See also the Feature page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval

I have been updating the dependency list there for almost a year.

Nicola

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