On 31/05/14 05:47, Steven J. Long wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:57:01AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 27/05/14 08:34, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2014-05-26, o godz. 23:15:34 >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >>> >>>> UPower upstream removed sys-power/pm-utils support from 0.99 release >>>> (currently unkeyworded in tree), as in, from current git master. >>> Don't worry. Looking at the past, I can guess this is only a temporary >>> inconvenience. I'm pretty sure upower will be discontinued soon >>> and replaced with systemd-powerd or something :D. >>> >> That's more or less what they already did, they forced eg. >> xfce4-power-manager upstream >> to move the deleted pm-utils code from upower directly to the power >> manager (application) >> itself, likewise for xfce4-session >> Which means applications will now need to duplicate the pm-utils related >> code per application >> basis >> So I expect upower to be more or less dead for everything but systemd >> users, except for >> those upstreams that will actually follow the Xfce path and do the >> duplication >> Yet, still, small portition of the code is still 'generic', so >> xfce4-power-manager will still need >> both, upower, even 0.99, and then pm-utils, depending on the version, >> codepath is selected >> >> This was sort of expected, since pm-utils has been abandoned for ~5 >> years now at upstream, >> so nobody is maintaining non-systemd related power management tools >> anymore, and >> falling back to eg. manual laptop-mode-tools, acpid, etc. usage will be >> necessary again, >> it's like going back to 90s for non-systemd users :P > I can't believe I'm reading that from a distro-developer. Basically this > entire thread is "systemd is deprecating the existing tools, so let's dump > them and half our userbase back to the 90s, isn't that a great thing?"
Then you misunderstood. Notice the ":P" as an indicator of sarcasm. I've already created sys-power/upower-pm-utils where the sys-power/pm-utils 0.9 git branch will continue to live.
