Bug#580429: Please disable hal support / battstat applet

[Michael Biebl]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.30.0-1
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: halectomy

Hi,

as we eventually want to get rid of hal [1], I checked where it is used
within gnome-applets. It seems, only the battstat (battstat/*) applet
still requires hal.
There are two options:
1/ Disable hal support in battstat (--disable-hal configure switch). It
seems to have fallback code so it should still be operational.
2/ Remove battstat completely (--disable-battstat configure switch).
Does it still have any useful features (over gnome-power-manager), that
make it worthwile to keep?

I'd lean towards 2/ but leave the decision up to you.

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data          2.30.0-1     Various applets for the GNOME pane
ii  gnome-icon-theme            2.30.2.1-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel                 2.28.0-3+b1  launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstream 0.10.29-1    GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [ 0.10.18-2+b1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good  0.10.22-1    GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio [g 0.10.22-1    GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
hi  gvfs                        1.6.1-1      userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libapm1                     3.2.2-14     Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.30.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.24.3-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.24.3-1     The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-6     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcpufreq0                 006-2        shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.24-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.86-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.1-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17       2.30.0-2     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.30.0-1     The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0. 0.10.29-1    GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0          0.10.29-1    Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7                  2.28.1-1     gtop system monitoring library (sh
ii  libgucharmap7               1:2.30.1-1   Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libgweather1                2.30.0-1     GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1                     0.5.14-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.5-1      sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-4                 2.30.0-2     GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-applet2-0          2.28.0-3+b1  library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.28.0-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0       0.96-2       PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libwnck22                   2.30.0-2     Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.3-3    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  python                      2.5.4-9      An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils                  006-2      utilities to deal with the cpufreq
ii  deskbar-applet                2.30.1-1   universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media                   2.30.0-1   GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet        2.28.1-1   Network status applet for GNOME
ii  gnome-system-monitor          2.28.1-1   Process viewer and system resource
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.96-2     GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  python-gconf                  2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnomeapplet            2.30.0-1   Python bindings for the GNOME pane
ii  python-gobject                2.21.1-1   Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                   2.17.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  acpid                         1:2.0.4-1  Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  tomboy                        1.2.1-1    desktop note taking program using 

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