On 2021-12-19 13:07, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: xfce4-sensors-plugin > Version: 1.4.2-1 > Severity: minor > > Dear maintainer, > > xfce4-sensors-plugin recommends hddtemp which is going to be removed from > the archive. > > hddtemp is a software from another age that will not be shipped with > Debian Bookworm release [1]. However it could be easily replaced by the > drivetemp kernel module (available since kernel 5.6) which uses the same > hwmon interface as for NVME drives and other systems sensors and is > supported by lm-sensors. It does not require any privileged, as opposed > to hddtemp which runs as a daemon or a setuid binary. > > xfce4-sensors-plugin currently recommends hddtemp, and it also depends > on the libsensor5 library from lm-sensors, offering an easy transition. > The only thing to do is therefore to drop the hddtemp recommends. Note > that recommends do not affected installability, so there is no urgency > in doing so, but it should eventually be dropped.
I was actually wrong about that. It appears that xfce4-sensors-plugin also build-depends on hddtemp, therefore that should be dropped to, probably de-activating the support at build time. Thanks, Aurelien
