[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#549948: acpid: outdated package description

[Justin B Rye]

Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.10-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Lenny's acpid no longer requires /proc/acpi/event; but the package
description is lagging behind.

# Package: acpid
# Description: Utilities for using ACPI power management

Also, that's a strangely inaccurate synopsis: /usr/sbin/acpid is
only one thing, and it isn't a utility.  Use the same short
description as the man page:

  Description: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon

#  Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
#  to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and
#  configuration status.
#  .
#  ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering
#  ACPI events. It listens on a file (/proc/acpi/event) and when an event
#  occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes
#  are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be
#  dropped into place by packages or by the admin.

Update the reference to listening on /proc/acpi/event:

   [...] It listens on a netlink interface (or on the deprecated file
   /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs[...]

If current Squeeze kernels don't have CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT then
this version may be getting stale already, but it's slightly ahead
of the man page.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools             3.10-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.123-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
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