Comment 5 for bug 41432

Yes please, I request an UVF for this on March 23rd after requesting Bdale to upload the new version into Debian so that it could be synced.

From: Paul Sladen
To: Matt Zimmerman, Colin Watson
cc: Daniel Silverstone
Subject: UVF exception for 'powernowd' 0.96 -> 0.97

Powernowd is a system of initscripts to detect the CPU type and a daemon to
scale the CPU frequency for energy conservation and heat reduction.

The new upstream version fixes some SMP issues, such as those found on
recent Core-Duo systems.

  http://www.deater.net/john/powernowd.html
  NEW! (2/12/2006) Version 0.97 ("Lets try to make SMP work right this
  time")

  What's New (2-12-06)
  There were quite a few minor SMP bugs in powernowd 0.96. It would work,
  but not wuite optimally. Especially on multi-socket, multi-core systems. Now
  that I have an Athlon X2, I was able to see what was wrong myself and fix
  it. There may still be a few bugs, but things should work much better
  now. I also changed the thread detection logic to use the cpufreq 'affected_cpus'
  file. This should be a lot more reliable.

Bdale has done some testing and uploaded this to Debian at my request
(currently sitting in incoming). Sadly his changelog doesn't anything
interesting.

  powernowd (0.97-1) unstable; urgency=low
  .
   * new upstream version, closes: #349066
   * freshen policy version, debhelper version

There are a couple of deltas that need merging (eg. rc.d load order);

  https://launchpad.net/bugs/34115

is the bug I'd like to close.