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Bug 593938 - [Tracker] Get rid of HAL
[Tracker] Get rid of HAL
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: general
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Unknown User
Unknown User
Depends on: 583640 585955 586508 592364 593787 593933 593936 594006 594966 605920 606917 607254 609358 612616 619214
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-02 16:22 UTC by Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon)
Modified: 2020-11-12 14:09 UTC
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Description Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2009-09-02 16:22:13 UTC 
Hal is deprecated, see http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal

"HAL is in maintenance mode - no new features are added. All future development focuses on Software/DeviceKit-disks, Software/DeviceKit-power, NetworkManager, PulseAudio, udev (gudev), ..."
Comment 1 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2010-01-25 23:51:54 UTC 
Fedora tracker: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval
Ubuntu tracker: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy
Debian tracker: http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval
Comment 2 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2011-06-23 15:09:36 UTC 
DeviceKit-disks, DeviceKit-power are replaced by udisks and upower, so the previous sentence should be:

"HAL is in maintenance mode - no new features are added. All future development focuses on udisks, upower and other parts of the stack. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit "