[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#763134: acpi-support-base: /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs broken from line 24 if consolekit installed and no dbus running

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Michael,

Not Thijs here, but I think can also comment on this:

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 10:09:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 08:49:46PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > On its own, I would not consider failure to lock the screen in specific
> > situations a high priority issue because of the other consequences of
> > having physical access to a machine. Normally I would suggest to fix the
> > bug through the regular stable update channel.
> 
> Ok, thanks for the clarification. I absolutely agree, but didn't want to go
> ahead without asking.
> 
> > However, am I correct that this is a regression in the DSA for
> > acpi-support (0.140-5+deb7u3)? If so, we can fix it through stable
> > security since it's a regression introduced in that channel.
> 
> Nope, I don't think this is a regression. I'm pretty sure the same problem
> applies to the original stable version.

Given the above and that this was not introduced via a DSA, you can go
ahead and ask for an update trough stable-proposed-update. Keep in
mind that the window is closing this weekend IIRC.

Regards,
Salvatore
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