[ANNOUNCEMENT] hal-0.5.12rc1 and hal-info-20081127 available for testing

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Danny,

Danny Kukawka [2008-11-27 16:13 +0100]:
> I've uploaded the first release candidate of hal v0.5.12 along with a hal-info 
> snapshot to:
> 
>     http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.12rc1.tar.bz2 [and *.gz]
>     http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-info-20081127.tar.bz2 [and *.gz]
> 
> Please note: they are only snapshots and not tagged in the git repos atm. 
> Please test the packages heavily and carefully. Please report bugs (no 
> features get included until the final version). Thanks in advance for your 
> work.

Thanks for preparing those! I uploaded them to Ubuntu, and have them
running on my box. I exercised a set of obvious test cases (network
manager, crypted USB stick, quirks, suspend), and working fine now.

From my POV I'd like to see two things fixed:

 - Joystick detection [1][2], which is an improved version of the
   patch that Matthew Garrett recently proposed. It's in Ubuntu for
   some weeks now and I haven't heard any complaints, and it works
   very well.

   OK for me to commit?

 - Fix rfkill handling, to fall back to new sysfs kernel API. This is
   discussed in [3]. I ported Steve Langasek's patch to 0.5.12rc1 and
   asked him to test the current version (since it doesn't apply to 
   my Latitude D430). I haven't incorporated Maciej's additional fix
   yet, though.

Martin

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012504.html
[2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/284129
[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10979

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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