Bug#599015: LSB header not up-to-date: Should-Start hal and acpid no longer necessary

[Michael Biebl]

On 03.10.2010 21:40, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 21:26 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 
>> gdm3 declares soft dependency on hal and acpid in it's LSB header.
>>
>> Afaics this is just legacy that has been copied over from gdm2 and is no
>> longer necessary and so should be removed.
> 
> Isn’t there trouble if the session starts with hal not yet started? I
> know it’s mostly irrelevant for GNOME sessions, but the user could have
> an application using it in his saved session.

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much. Applications should usually cope fine
with hal coming up later (e.g. we do restart hal in postinst) and it is unlikely
anyway, that starting hal takes longer than gdm+desktop login.

That said, if you have concern removing the hal dep, you can wait for wheezy
where hal will be started on-demand via dbus activation (and dbus will block
calls until hal is fully up).

The acpid dep though still looks wrong to me or what was the reason why it was
added?

Cheers,
Michael
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