Alright, after a bit of poking pm-utils is still required, however kubuntu-desktop still incorrectly depends on pm-utils. Upower has been patched out so as to only use pm-utils and thus upower must declare a hard dependency on pm-utils
** Package changed: kde-workspace (Ubuntu) => upower (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: upower (Ubuntu) Assignee: Rohan Garg (rohangarg) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to upower in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273413 Title: no suspend available without pm-utils Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: With Trusty Alpha 2 installed I have no suspend option available from my kickoff menu when I apt-get purge pm-utils. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/1273413/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp