HAL 0.5.10

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2007/10/12, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a new hal (and hal-info) release
> >
> >  http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.10.tar.gz
> >  http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-info-20071011.tar.gz
>
> The hal-info-20071011 release has a configure check for hal >= 0.5.10
> and aborts if the check fails.
> Why exactly was this added, what will happen if this hal-info release
> is used with hal < 0.5.10 (which could happen for pre-compiled binary
> packages)?

The hal-info package need a HAL >= 0.5.10 due to new fdi-directives (*_outof) 
which wouldn't work with older HAL versions. It make no sense to use this 
hal-info version with hal =< 0.5.10 since you would lose many of the 
fdi-rules.

Danny