Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Wienke <langui...@semipol.de>
* Package name : autosuspend Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Johannes Wienke <langui...@semipol.de> * URL : https://github.com/languitar/autosuspend * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : A configurable daemon to suspend a system in case of inactivity Autosuspend is a configurable daemon to suspend a system in case of inactivity. Its main usage scenario are home servers like NAS systems or media centers that should be sleeping if they are not needed. Autosuspend provides a set of configurable checks that determine whether the system is currently active or not. These checks do not depend on Xorg (though one check supports querying X idle time). There are a lot of different scripts roaming around the internet for this purpose but none of them is really generic and as flexible as autosuspend. Moreover, they have not been packaged. Autosuspend tries to collect the various efforts to provide such a system in a well-maintained daemon that is ready for use. I am the author of the software and plan to provide package updates whenever necessary. I hope that by providing this software as a package in Debian more users can easily make use of it and don't need to fight with outdated scripts found somewhere on the internet. Ultimately, this hopefully reduces unnecessary energy consumption. I have already drafted the required Debian packaging infrastructure, which is available here: https://github.com/languitar/autosuspend-debian. A first request for a review regarding this on the IRC channels was positive and proposed to open the ITP.
