Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.4-3
Severity: minor

I just got the following debconf message when upgrading:
| Kernel ACPI support

| Your current kernel does not have ACPI support enabled. In order to be
| able to use the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface support you need
| to recompile your kernel with ACPI support enabled.

Actually, my kernel has ACPI support enabled but I explicitly disabled
it with acpi=off during boot.  Therefore what this message says about
recompilation is wrong.  Please mention something like 'active' (and
maybe how) too.

By the way, I think this message is an abuse of debconf.  I have apmd
and acpid installed because I mostly use APM but sometimes use ACPI;
I'm not sure users need to be told that ACPI support has to be enabled
in order to use acpid in a debconf note... it seems pretty clear.
CCing our debconf god for comment.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy

acpid recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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