Bug#420697: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#420697: hal-info: Description not very helpful

[Michael Biebl]

Quoting Erich Schubert <erich at debian.org>:

> Hi,
>> The hal-info package contains various device information files (also
>> known as .fdi files) for the hal package.
>
> What is a device information file good for?
> I don't have them installed, do I need them?
>

The hal-info package is a dependency of hal-0.5.9.
The fdi files (xml files describing hardware) were split from the hal  
package into a separate package. Besides being a dependency of hal >=  
0.5.9, you are probably not interested in installing it directly.

Michael


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