Ubuntu
landscape-client package

Please drop hal dependency

Bug #708501 reported by Martin Pitt on 2011-01-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #708502: Please drop hal dependency. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	landscape-client (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: landscape-client

HAL has been deprecated and totally unsupported for several years now. landscape-client is one of the very few packages which still depend on it, and keep it in main.

It should be dropped, and hardware info should be taken from sysfs and libudev. There are gobject-introspection bindings for gudev these days, so you can comfortably use them from Python as well. As a first approximation, you can also use "udevadm info --export-db". Please let me know if you have questions about getting info about particular hardware pieces.

Thanks!