[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#757361: Bug#757361: upower: breaks unrelated software

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.08.2014 14:30, schrieb Norbert Preining:
> Package: upower
> Version: 0.99.0-3
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> in former times, uploading a package that creates lots of breakage,
> it was necessary to provides fixes, or support, for the broken
> packages.
> 
> This seems not to be the case anymore. xfce4 is *completely*
> broken due to upower0.99. Every update of systemd* breaks it,
> suspend is not working properly, etc etc etc.
> 
> Why was an upload of upower0.99 allowed without making sure
> that at least most of the DE and important programs are 
> fixable?
> 
> Don't tell me that it is the responsability of the maintainers
> of package X. It is the responsability of the upower maintainers
> to make sure that transition is halfway smooth. But we are speaking
> of far from halfway smooth.
> 
> This *is* RC, as xfce 4.12 will not be released in time for jessy,
> which means Debian would ship a broken XFCE. This is RC, and it
> is a bug of upower.

Since you didn't tell what was broken, one can only speculate.

In the xfce4-power-manager bug report, you got the wrong advice to
disable suspend in logind.conf on lid-close.
If you do that, it is obvious that logind no longer suspends :-P


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