severity 485564 important thanks On 10/06/08 at 11:20 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 10/06/08 at 10:05 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: >>> Unfortunately the Ubuntu implementation is deprecated and receives >>> not nearly as much testing as it used to, since their default >>> install does suspend/resume using hal (which delegates to pm-utils). >>> All their development efforts go into pm-utils nowadays. So I >>> *really* want to move to pm-utils for new installs. I guess I'll >>> move the default back to acpi-support for existing installs, but as >>> far as I'm concerned that's as far as it should go. >> >> Wow, that means that my laptop, that suspended fine for years, wouldn't >> resume if I used Ubuntu? >> >> I think that one thing that has to be taken into account is that the >> lenny release is close. When did Ubuntu switch to pm-utils? For hardy, >> or after the hardy release? If they did the move after hardy, it might >> be better to stay with hardy's behaviour for lenny. > > They switched before Hardy. That means that it's supposed to work. :-) > Also, Debian has already switched as well, as much as Ubuntu has -- > suspending from Gnome uses pm-utils. I just want to get rid of the > situation that there are several suspend packages around, and depending > on which GUI/non-GUI you use, you get a different one. Otherwise suspend > will work in one situation and won't in another!
OK, I see. I think that existing users of acpi-support should be offered the option to stay with legacy mode (using a debconf question, for example). (lowering the bug severity for that) And I should investigate why resuming didn't work with pm-utils. :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
