> this hint is written in /usr/share/doc/hdapsd/README.Deabian, which should
> be the first place to read if some app does not work out of the box

Ubuntu is trying to deliver linux to a larger population of users.  A
typical problem throughout the Open Source world is recognizing and
coping with a transition from a small population of computer-skilled
participants able to dig for information to a larger unskilled
population that expects everything to just work.  No one outside of the
cognoscenti is going to go digging under /usr/share/doc, unless
explicitly told to look there.  Nor should most users look there, given
the nature of the material generally present (changelogs, TODO files,
copyright notices).  At best, we'll train users to read man pages.

In any event, don't worry about removing the package.  If you "add a
hint to that file on startup", and to the package description, that
should indicate to most users that the feature won't be present, and
point the rare few (a tiny fraction of a percent) who can handle the
patch to what they have to do.  And we can hope that someday either the
kernel support will be mainline, or the daemon won't need it.

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hdaps_protect patch to enable disk head parking on thinkpads
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139881
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