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Bug 606917 - Get rid of HAL
Get rid of HAL
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
0.7.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: tracker-general
Jamie McCracken
Depends on:
Blocks: 593938
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-14 01:29 UTC by Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon)
Modified: 2010-02-25 14:58 UTC
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Description Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2010-01-14 01:29:00 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 Martyn Russell 2010-02-25 13:57:26 UTC 
This has been partially fixed this week. We have moved to gio for the storage parts. The power code supports HAL and PowerKit, so really just need to remove support for the HAL part there AFAICS. We can do this for next week's release.
Comment 2 Jürg Billeter 2010-02-25 14:58:59 UTC 
As we still don't have DeviceKit-power/upower in maemo, we will keep both power backends for now. However, DeviceKit-power is the preferred backend and HAL is only used if DeviceKit-power is unavailable (or disabled), so this bug can be closed.