Package: pm-utils
Version: 1.1.2.3-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

With the move to 2.6.26, suspend stopped working for me.
This turned out to be a bug in s2ram, rather than pm-utils,
but this took me a lot longer to figure out due to the
"auto" mode implemented in
10-sleep-module-auto-detection.patch.

I think it would be a good idea to drop this: I think
pm-utils may handle suspend better than s2ram these days,
and more and more quirk-handling is being moved into the
kernel.

Having the behaviour of pm-utils change depending on
whether uswsusp is installed or not makes behaviour very
unpredictable and bugs harder to triage.

Also, it's quite a significant behavioural change from what
people may expect if they are familiar with pm-utils
upstream (or in another distro).

At the very least, if you insist on keeping the patch,
submit it upstream for inclusion or for their opinion (I
suspect they would disagree with it's inclusion).

Along similar lines, I think you should move s2ram from
Recommends: to Suggests:. with s2ram present, pm-utils is
little more than a quirk-handling wrapper around a program
that implements quirk-handling all by itself, and most
people installing pm-utils are going to end up with
pm-utils as long as you Recommend it.

I think the future of suspend on most Linux desktops is
going to be one with out uswsusp and one with all the quirk
handling in the kernel.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-rc8 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pm-utils depends on:
ii  console-tools            1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities
ii  powermgmt-base           1.30            Common utils and configs for power

Versions of packages pm-utils recommends:
ii  hal                           0.5.11-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  radeontool                    1.5-5      utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii  uswsusp                       0.8-0.1    tools to use userspace software su
ii  vbetool                       1.0-3      run real-mode video BIOS code to a

-- no debconf information



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to