Bug#568476: Please update to >= 0.85 which no longer relies on HAL

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Fri Feb 5 01:31:28 UTC 2010


Package: update-notifier
Version: 0.70.7.debian-7
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: halectomy

Hi,

please consider updating update-notifier to the latest version from
Ubuntu which no longer relies on HAL. According to the changelog this
port happened in 0.85, the latest Ubuntu version is 0.93 and uses
libgdu/libgudev.

For more information see [1].

Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc6 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages update-notifier depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                 1.2.20-2        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gksu                     2.0.2-2+b1      graphical frontend to su
ii  hal                      0.5.14-2        Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.20-2        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.28.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.24.2-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.24.2-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-5        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                1.8.8-2         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.20-2        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.84-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1           2.8.0-2         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6             2.3.11-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4              2.28.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.4-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.22.4-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.28.0-1        The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.26.0-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.24.2-1        The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           1:2.24.2-1      GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.18.6-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                  0.5.14-2        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.6-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.5-1         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2                1:2.14.17-2     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.26.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.15-1          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   2:1.1.1-1       X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.3.3-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                  1:1.0.5-1       X11 authorisation library
ii  libxml2                  2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii  notification-daemon      0.4.0-2         a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  python                   2.5.4-9         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt               0.7.93          Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  update-manager-gnome     0.200.0-1       GNOME application that manages sof
ii  update-notifier-common   0.70.7.debian-7 Files shared between update-notifi

update-notifier recommends no packages.

update-notifier suggests no packages.

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