hal is dead, remove the use flag since it's optional. look for version bumps / replacements etc.
Please see the status page you pasted in your tracker.
The problem won't go away by closing the bug... we can opt to --without-hal if required.
To be clearer, hal USE flag will not be removed for the simple reason hal is deprecated. It is not enabled by default so if you don't want hal, just disable the use flag and you are done. There is no version bump available, if there ever is and upstream drops hal support, it'll go away the normal way. Thanks.
I am not sure if we should simply disable hal support for this since, as we can see in http://live.gnome.org/GnomePilot , gnome-pilot still needs hal for notify gpilotd (gnome-pilot daemon) when a PalmOS PDA attempts a HotSync operation. Then, if we disable hal support before gnome-pilot is ported to devicekit, we would lose that feature. From my point of view we should then wait and only drop hal support for this if gnome-pilot gets alone (or near ;-)) with that dep on hal
Samuli, do you agree with closing this bug until it's fixed by upstream? I think that we should wait since simply dropping hal USE flag could cause feature regressions.
(In reply to comment #5) > Samuli, do you agree with closing this bug until it's fixed by upstream? I > think that we should wait since simply dropping hal USE flag could cause > feature regressions. > if you think gnome-pilot is in active enough development it's realistic to expect that happen
Seems that sadly its maintainance is at minimum but I have seen that, anyway, there have been changes related with removal of deprecated code (like old glib symbols). Then, I think that we could close this as "upstream" for now and, if upstream doesn't care (and gnome-pilot is still required by any app) and it's near alone requiring hal in the future, we could drop hal (or maybe some other distribution migrates it to devicekit and we could take their patches ;-)) Best regards
