Package: macfanctld
Version: 0.6+repack1-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
While attempting to find a way to speed up the fans on my Late 2013
Macbook Pro
a few years ago, I came across macfanctld on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The package
appeared to work at first glace, but it turns out that it can crash and
leave
the fans at the minimum speed, cooking the CPU and causing severe thermal
throttling. I haven't got the machine any more to verify (and don't want
to try
it on any of my other machines), but I assume the same problem is
apparent on
Debian, as this is where Ubuntu gets its packages from.
See the Ubuntu bug report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/macfanctld/+bug/1916800?comments=all
I expected the package to work as advertised. It turns out that there is
another more suitable and maintained program called mbpfan that works much
better. I propose that this package be dropped in favour of using that one
instead.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages macfanctld depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii lsb-base 11.6
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.14-4
macfanctld recommends no packages.
macfanctld suggests no packages.
