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and subject line Bug#747662: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #465810,
regarding hal: xorg input hotplugging: insufficient docs and references
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Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: minor
Hello,
setting up Xorg input hotpluging with HAL is a bit annoying and I will
try to explain why.
- the feature is not mentioned at any prominent place. There is a long
way from seeing some "could not get hal context" message in
Xorg.0.log to finding 10-x11-input.fdi . Such hints should be
placed in README.Debian and in NEWS once, and also in
xserver-xorg-core package.
- 10-x11-input.fdi installation is not automatic... a simple howto
might be placed in README.Debian or so.
- 10-x11-input.fdi is missing important examples for keyboard settings
(below). 10-keymap.fdi file were mentioned by people on IRC but it's
not clear how it is related to X11 (looking at its location) and it
is still missing some of the relevant options. It should contain at
least:
input.xkb.model -> XkbModel
input.xkb.layout -> XkbLayout
input.xkb.variant -> XkbVariant
input.xkb.options -> XkbOptions
Some reference to evdev(4) and kbd(4) or the /etc/X11/xkb/README*
files wouldn't hurt either, to see the possible values there.
- the documentation of the options/parameters (i.e.
/usr/share/doc/hal-doc/spec/hal-spec.html) should be referenced in
the example file.
I hope you will consider some of the ideas above to improve the
documentation.
Thanks,
Eduard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii hal-info 20071212-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libsmbios1 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080202-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-9 userspace USB programming library
ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii mount 2.13.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii pciutils 1:2.2.9-2 Linux PCI Utilities
ii pm-utils 0.99.2-3 utilities and scripts for power ma
ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii usbutils 0.73-5 Linux USB utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii libsmbios-bin 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.5.14-8+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package hal has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/747662
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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