Am 17.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > severity 710200 wishlist > thanks > >> This bug is serious, since hal will be removed. It's been dead for 5+ years >> now. Unless you want to take over the maintenance of hal? I'd be happy to >> hand over maintainership to you. > > But then you can't force people to stop using it by creating serious bugs. I'm > sure Mirek and his co-workers are willing to fix this issue, but removing > software from Debian just because you want to remove something that exists for > years is nothing that makes this bug serious.
It is. Since shipping hal with jessie would be unresponsible. >> Is there actually anyone using rhn-client-tools on !Linux which would >> justify blocking any progress on this bug? This is an honest question. > > Actually I don't think it would be a problem to remove it for !linux. Please You mean, making rhn-client-tools linux-any? Sure, I can provide a patch for that. See attachment. I'm fine with uploading that. Just let me know. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
diff -u rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/changelog
rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/changelog
--- rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/changelog
+++ rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+rhn-client-tools (1.8.26-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Mark rhn-client-tools linux-any. Hal is a requirement on !linux but it is
+ dead upstream and no longer maintained.
+
+ -- Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2014 00:41:02 +0200
+
rhn-client-tools (1.8.26-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* [e2f4df9c] Merge tag 'upstream/1.8.26'
diff -u rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/control
rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/control
--- rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/control
+++ rhn-client-tools-1.8.26/debian/control
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/spacewalk/rhn-clint-tools.git
Package: rhn-client-tools
-Architecture: any
+Architecture: linux-any
Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python-rhn (>= 2.5.40),
- python-ethtool [linux-any], python-dbus, python-apt (>= 0.7.100), python-newt,
- python-dmidecode, lsb-release, gnupg, python-gudev [linux-any], hal
[!linux-any], debconf, python-openssl
+ python-ethtool, python-dbus, python-apt (>= 0.7.100), python-newt,
+ python-dmidecode, lsb-release, gnupg, python-gudev, debconf, python-openssl
Recommends: apt-spacewalk
Suggests: python-gnome2, python-gtk2, python-glade2
Description: Red Hat Network Client Tools
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