Comment 1 for bug 18961

I am quoting a posting in a discussion thread at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=274702#post274702

Bart Samwell wrote (in that thread):

Hi there,

I'm the author of Laptop Mode Tools and the maintainer of the Debian package
laptop-mode-tools. I've just found out about the existence of the Ubunto
laptop-mode package and have done some research. Here's what I've found.

The Ubuntu laptop-mode package predates the laptop-mode-tools package, and it is
based on the script that laptop mode tools forked off of about a year ago. This
old script was maintained mostly by me in the kernel documentation, and I forked
and abandoned it a year ago because of the patching hassle (every change had to
go through Linus) and the installation hassle (it was a script embedded in the
documentation). I've checked the laptop-mode package, and it seems to be mostly
a verbatim packaging of that script, except for the addition of
/etc/default/laptop-mode support.

I guess you'd currently be better off running laptop-mode-tools instead, as it
represents a year's worth of improvements and bugfixes, and has an actual config
file, manpages, and an online FAQ. Whatever you do, you want to install either
laptop-mode-tools or laptop-mode, but not both, because they will probably
interfere with eachother. I'm talking to the maintainer of the laptop-mode
package to resolve this confusing mess.

(If you have any further questions, mail me, because I won't be following the
discussion.)

--Bart