[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#549505: hal: Please port to PolicyKit 1

[Michael Biebl]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.13-3
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: policykit-1

Hi,

your package uses policykit which is going away and replaced by
policykit-1.
We don't want to ship two policykit stacks in squeeze, so please port
your
application to this new API or disable policykit support.

The new policykit-1 packages can safely be co-installed to the existing
policykit package for easier porting and testing.

NOTE: As hal is in maintenance mode, a port to policykit-1 is not going
to happen.
The plan thus is to disable policykit (and also consolekit) support in
hal and use static group resp. at_console again to control access to the
hal D-Bus service.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.1
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 hal depends on:
ii  acl                          2.2.48-1    Access control list utilities
ii  adduser                      3.111       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                   0.3.1-1     framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20090716-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.16.1-3    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.9-27      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-4     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.1-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.13-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.13-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2                   0.9-4       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.16.1-3    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.4-1   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  policykit                    0.9-4       framework for managing administrat
ii  udev                         146-3       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.86-2      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.5-4                  utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages hal suggests:
ii  gnome-device-manager          0.2-3      GNOME device manager based on HAL

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