Michael Biebl writes: > Am 30.09.2013 04:12, schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: >> Package: hal >> Version: 0.5.14-8 >> Severity: normal
>> I've only noticed this late last week after my weekly Monday morning >> update of jessie but the lshal command has become dysfunctional. >> [snip] >> My prime interest is not lshal itself but custom software that uses >> libhal to access information that is also shown by lshal. Judging from >> the above, I would think that everything that still uses HAL may be >> affected. > > Hal is completely dead and shouldn't be used anymore. > My guess is, that it is broken due to > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705489 I knew HAL is no longer maintained upstream but I wasn't aware of the halectomy[1]. I whipped up a libudev based equivalent of the code that depended upon libhal. Things work again for me. Thanks for the pointer. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=halectomy;[email protected] -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
