<div dir="ltr">Dear Maintainers,<div><br></div><div>I am writing about bug #697246 in the acpi-support-base package, but it relates to the upowerd. I am unable to reach a consensus with the maintainer, so I am emailing you.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Some time ago, ACPI power scripts would check for the presence of upower and exit. Currently, they do not do so anymore. Instead, they check for the presence of gnome-power-manager, or another compatible power manager. This has the drawback that all power managers need to be enumerated. I believe this is incorrect, however it is up to the maintainer to decide. But, it does expose a potential bug in upower. If there is no compatible power manager running, such as on a MATE system (please do not point out it is not officially supported, it is not a good reason in my opinion for not fixing things), upower will catch the power event, but the system will already be shutting down. In other words, in order for upower to function correctly, it _requires_ a compatible power manager. Yet, this is not listed as a dependency.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>This is not an issue on a vanilla install of Debian, but it does arise on MATE. It would also arise if someone started X directly without a desktop environment and was hoping to handle power events manually via dbus.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I would be interested in knowing what you think about the issue. Thank you for your time.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-Yury</div><div style><br></div></div>