[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-27.mga3

Tue Sep 25 12:03:18 CEST 2012

Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee> writes:
+
+> 25.09.2012 01:17, blino kirjutas:
+>> Name        : task-obsolete                Relocations: (not relocatable)
+>> Version     : 3                                 Vendor: Mageia.Org
+>> Release     : 27.mga3                       Build Date: Tue Sep 25 00:12:29 2012
+>>
+>>
+>> blino <blino> 3-27.mga3:
+>> + Revision: 297306
+>> - obsolete policykit, replaced by polkit
+>> - obsolete hal and hal-info, replaced by udisks and later by udisks2
+> I would question obsoleting hal here. Is there a serious reason to do
+> that? What if there are 3rd party packages that still need it? Or
+> isn't it working at all on mga3? If it still works i wouldn't obsolete
+> it that way.
+
+hal removal has been discussed here a few weeks go and got no
+objections:
+https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017430.html
+
+hal has been first replaced by DeviceKit, which has then been replaced
+by udev + udisks, the later being again replaced by udisks2.
+We are many architecture cycles away from hal already.
+
+Fedora removed it one year ago already:
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval
+
+Do you have any example of such thirdparty software using it?
+
+See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_%28software%29#Deprecated
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+