[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#724963: Bug#724963: hal: lshal is completely dysfunctional

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Michael Biebl writes:

> Am 30.09.2013 04:12, schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
>> Package: hal
>> Version: 0.5.14-8
>> Severity: normal

>> I've only noticed this late last week after my weekly Monday morning
>> update of jessie but the lshal command has become dysfunctional.
>> [snip]
>> My prime interest is not lshal itself but custom software that uses
>> libhal to access information that is also shown by lshal.  Judging from
>> the above, I would think that everything that still uses HAL may be
>> affected.
>
> Hal is completely dead and shouldn't be used anymore.
> My guess is, that it is broken due to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705489

I knew HAL is no longer maintained upstream but I wasn't aware of the
halectomy[1].  I whipped up a libudev based equivalent of the code that
depended upon libhal.  Things work again for me.

Thanks for the pointer.

 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=halectomy;users=pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
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