Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
please remove HAL from unstable/testing. It's no longer function on Linux due to [0] and should not be released with jessie (at least for linux-any). On !linux-any, hal is still used by Xorg, so we can't remove it just yet completely. While there is some progress to port xserver-xorg to devd [1] it's not clear if/when this work will be uploaded to unstable. So I at least want to make sure hal is not released with jessie on Linux and no longer available on sid. Once the package has been removed on jessie/sid, I'll make an upload marking the package kfreebsd-any / hurd-any. All reverse dependencies of hal on Linux have been notified for a long time [2], are RC buggy and thus removed from testing already. [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705489 [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/02/msg00001.html [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=halectomy;[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
