Toshset should be an optional package or routed through upstart or something

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: toshset

I am on a CRT, not on a laptop so this package is useless to me but if I try to purge/remove it, it takes down important packages.

 sudo aptitude purge toshset
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  acpi-support
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  toshset{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 134 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 209kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  acpi-support: Depends: toshset but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
acpi-support
powermanagement-interface
ubuntu-desktop
xubuntu-desktop

Score is 326

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q

Ideally something like upstart or something else should know its good to install this package on a Toshiba laptop, not otherwise.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: toshset 1.72-6ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: toshset
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[djchandler (djchandler)]

The dependencies listed above are no longer an issue, yet it installed (1.75-2) by default with 10.04 Beta 1 AMD64 on a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5959, a configuration that uses Insyde's H20 EFI framework. Although probably not the case, this package being installed possibly could be obfuscating what is causing overheating issues. With the last kernel update (2.6.32-20) there appears to be no fan control from the kernel. It is either on or off and stays that way probably depending on the temperature sensed before entering booting the kernel. It would probably be better to keep this package as an optional item, not installed by default.