[Pm-utils] pm-utils 1.4.0-rc2 available for testing

[Victor Lowther]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor,
>
> I committed a few small man pages fixes to the 1.4 branch and a video
> quirk that was reported in Debian/Ubuntu to the video-quirks branch.
> Attached are two more patches I currently ship in Debian and which
> might be suitable upstream:
> 08-fix-lock-file-handling.patch:
> It uses flock to make the lock file handling more robust instead of
> our home grown solution
> Original Debian bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568565

Looks good, go ahead and push it.

> 09-document-add-drop-parameters.patch:
> It documents the ADD_PARAMETER/DROP_PARAMETER as mechanism how to pass
> video-quirks to pm-utils (I assume this still the recommended way)

Sorta -- the recommended way is to either just pass the appropriate
quirks on the command line, or have an entry in the quirkdb for your
system.  You might want to make a note about submitting an update to
the quirk database if you have to use ADD_PARAMETERS or
DROP_PARAMETERS to make things work.

> Original Debian bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485443
>
> 2010/6/15 Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 13:35 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
>>> Another few months, another pm-utils version.
>>>
>>> Major changes in this release:
>>>
>>> * The pm-utils git tree includes infrastructure to build .deb packages,
>>>   .rpm packages. and Arch Linux .tar packages.  These are not intended
>>>   to replace distro packaging, and are not included in the release tarballs.
>>>
>>>   Patches to make them work for distro releases are welcome, along with
>>>   patches to add support in the git tree for other distros to make testing
>>>   easier.
>>>
>>> * We include some basic power management hooks. The individual hooks can
>>>   conflict with the ones provided by the laptop-mode-tools scripts, so you
>>>   should either just remove laptop-mode-tools entirely or pick and choose
>>>   between which package should handle what powersaving functionality.
>>>
>>>   Currently, the hooks include defaults that work for me.  Patches for
>>>   more universally sane defaults are accepted.
>>>
>>> If there are no major objections that cannot be worked out by Sunday, June 20,
>>> this will be released as pm-utils 1.4.0 along with an update of the
>>> video quirks database.
>>
>> Fixed some bugs, now pm-utils-1.4.0-rc2 is available @
>> http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/releases/pm-utils-1.4.0-rc2.tar.gz
>>
>>
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>> Victor Lowther
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