On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:42:48AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:39:44PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Of course, this dire situation has come upon us due to the strong > > interleaving of Gnome and Systemd and upower maintainers, uploading > > without making sure not to break the rest of the infrastructure. > > The upower change was announced by > the maintainer well in advance, that announcement has been > re-distributed by me/GNOME on October 2013: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2013-October/msg00002.html > > For such a change, 6-9 months of pre-warning should be enough. It would > be way better if projects held back until all affected software changed > (or maybe ensure affected software makes the changes). However, not very > realistic (only so much time plus your adjusting the speed of other > projects to the slowest one).
If I understand right, new upower basically throws away most of its functionality, telling its users to use systemd instead. That's an idea that's neither good nor acceptable. So reverting to a fully functional version of upower for jessie would be probably best. -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140808135929.ga29...@angband.pl
