[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#792398: Bug#792398: hald fails to start

[Karsten Sperling]

I don't know what exactly it's actually used for, but it's referenced here
for example:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1039743?start=0&tstart=0

Essentially, NPAPI Flash will remain at version 11.x with security updates
only, so they won't update it to remove the HAL dependency.
Later versions are PPAPI only and shipped with Chrome only.

I might try building HAL from source and see if I can work around that
udevadm issue.


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 14.07.2015 um 15:10 schrieb Karsten Sperling:
> > Thanks for the quick reply. That's unfortunate, as HAL is still required
> by
> > the Adobe Flash plugin for playing DRM-protected video.
>
> Wow, why the heck do they need hal for that which has been removed from
> basically every distro out there?
>
>
> --
> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?
>
>
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