Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 3.4.0-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org
gnome-power-manager's Description says: >Description: power management tool for the GNOME desktop > GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop > that takes care of system or desktop events related to power, and > triggers actions accordingly. Its philosophy is to completely hide > these complex tasks and only show some settings important to the user. > . > GNOME power manager displays and manages battery status, power plug > events, display brightness, CPU, graphics card and hard disk drive > power saving, and can trigger suspend-to-RAM, hibernate or shutdown > events, all integrated to other components of the GNOME desktop. However, this hasn't been true since oldoldstable. The power management daemon functionality was moved to gnome-settings-daemon in GNOME 3.2, and the daemon was deleted from gnome-power-manager, leaving only the gnome-power-statistics application. I think the description should be more like this: """ Description: power statistics viewer for the GNOME desktop GNOME Power Statistics displays detailed information about battery status, including charging and discharging rates. . This package previously contained background services that triggered actions in response to power-related events, but the gnome-settings-daemon package is now responsible for providing those services. """ Perhaps the package should also be renamed to gnome-power-statistics, with a transitional gnome-power-manager package that depends on gnome-power-statistics and gnome-settings-daemon. That would incidentally also resolve <https://bugs.debian.org/822632> by providing a way to get the gnome-power-statistics tool without gnome-settings-daemon. (I'm not sure how maintained this package is any more; it had a release earlier this year, but very little is changing, and there are plans upstream for gnome-usage to grow a Power panel, which would mostly obsolete gnome-power-statistics.) smcv