[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#589625: acpi-support: Providing the option to suspend on lid close would be useful

[Luca Niccoli]

Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.137-3
Severity: normal

Hi, on eeepc-acpi-scripts we suspend the laptop by default on lid close.
This is because there were some concerns that leaving it on would lead to overheating; this hypothesis is probably unfounded, but still we would like to keep an option for this behaviour since users are used to it.
We are trying to integrate eeepc-acpi-scripts with acpi-support, but the latter already manages the lid event on it's own, only turning off the screen (or leaving it to the power-manager if one it's running).
Would you accept a patch that, depending on a variable set in /etc/default/acpi-support (off by default) would suspend the laptop?
Thanks,

Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-atom (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii  acpi-fakekey                  0.137-3    tool to generate fake key events
ii  acpi-support-base             0.137-3    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1:2.0.6-1  Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-2    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+1+b1   X server utilities

Versions of packages acpi-support recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  radeontool                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  vbetool                       1.1-2      run real-mode video BIOS code to a
pn  xscreensaver | gnome-screensa <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages acpi-support suggests:
ii  rfkill                        0.4-1      tool for enabling and disabling wi
ii  xinput                        1.5.2-1    Runtime configuration and test of 

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