[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#590223: udisks: feature regression from older hal

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: udisks
Version: 1.0.1+git20100614-1
Severity: normal

Given that udisks is supposed to supersede hal, I would like to request
feature parity with hal.

laptop-mode-tools is the consumer of hal for one of the features.
hal-disable-polling.
lmt calls hal-disable-polling to disable polling on cdrom drives.

The same does not seem to be possible with udisks because "udisks
--inhibit-polling" will not exit without manual intervention. A CTRL + C
is required.

Will it be possible to call udisks and expect it to exit immediately
with an exit status ?

Transition to udisks is currently stalled for lmt.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574867

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages udisks depends on:
ii  dbus                  1.2.24-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libatasmart4          0.17+git20100219-2 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
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  libdevmapper1.02.1    2:1.02.48-2        The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.25.11-3          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgudev-1.0-0        160-1              GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libparted0debian1     2.3-1              The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.96-2             PolicyKit backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-2             PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libsgutils2-2         1.29-1             utilities for devices using the SC
ii  libudev0              160-1              libudev shared library
ii  udev                  160-1              /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages udisks recommends:
ii  dosfstools                  3.0.9-1      utilities for making and checking 
ii  hdparm                      9.27-2       tune hard disk parameters for high
ii  mtools                      4.0.12-1     Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
ii  ntfs-3g                     1:2010.3.6-1 read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
ii  ntfsprogs                   2.0.0-1+b1   tools for doing neat things in NTF
ii  policykit-1                 0.96-2       framework for managing administrat

Versions of packages udisks suggests:
ii  cryptsetup                    2:1.1.3-3  configures encrypted block devices
pn  mdadm                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  reiserfsprogs                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xfsprogs                      <none>     (no description available)

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