Bug 700405 - Broken dependency on deprecated hal
Summary: Broken dependency on deprecated hal
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: halevt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: manuel wolfshant
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 716023
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-28 10:41 UTC by Nicola Soranzo
Modified: 2011-09-20 12:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-09-20 12:49:18 UTC
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Description Nicola Soranzo 2011-04-28 10:41:16 UTC
Description of problem:
Since HAL has been deprecated upstream for 3 years, all major distributions are removing it. You can find more details on the proposed Fedora Feature page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval

The hal package has already been deprecated by its maintainer and blocked from composes for rawhide.
Therefore, unless somebody volunteers to maintain hal, the following broken dependencies for your package should be removed:

halevt-0.1.6.2-4.fc15.i686 requires libhal.so.1

If these dependencies cannot be removed, this package should probably be
deprecated as well:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
halevt-0.1.6.2-4.fc15

Comment 1 Nicola Soranzo 2011-05-18 12:52:47 UTC
Ping?

I would suggest to deprecate this package for Fedora 16:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

Comment 2 Nicola Soranzo 2011-08-23 14:05:54 UTC
Second ping?

There are only two packages depending on HAL now...

Comment 3 Patrice Dumas 2011-08-23 16:50:47 UTC
Indeed halevt without hal doesn't make any sense. I am not sure that there is a replacement yet in fedora, but I don't have a fedora anymore and I don't really follow fedora development anymore, so I don't really know. 

Some candidates could be
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udiskie
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-devmon/
https://github.com/fernandotcl/udisks-glue/blob/master/README

Seems like none is in Fedora yet...

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-09-16 17:34:39 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Nicola Soranzo 2011-09-20 12:49:18 UTC
Thanks Manuel for deprecating halevt for F16 and rawhide!
I'm closing this bug.


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