[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#660521: start hal on boot : (needed for flash DRM authentication)

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-7
Severity: normal

I am aware that hal is deprecated and it is being phased out.
Unfortunately, some online video streaming services require it for their
DRM authentication like Flash player version 11:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/929/cpsid_92948.html

However, installing hal on wheezy does not start hal automatically. Thus
the video streaming fails (For example Amazon instant video service).
This does not happen on squeeze where hal is started at boot time.

I tried, naively, to copy the /etc/init.d/hal file (present in squeeze)
into the same directory of my wheezy computer but this still didn't
work.

Could you please re-enable hal to start automatically if one decides to
install it from the repositories? I mean it's not currently installed by
default anyways, so allowing it to start automatically should be no
issue, I hope.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (490, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu1
ii  dbus              1.4.16-1
ii  hal-info          20091130-1
ii  libblkid1         2.20.1-1.2
ii  libc6             2.13-26
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.98-1
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-7.2
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.30.2-6
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.14-7
ii  libhal1           0.5.14-7
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-20
ii  lsb-base          3.2-28.1
ii  mount             2.20.1-1.2
ii  pciutils          1:3.1.8-2
ii  udev              175-3
ii  usbutils          1:005-2

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  consolekit  0.4.5-1
ii  eject       2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-9
ii  pm-utils    1.4.1-9

hal suggests no packages.

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