#1035397 pm-utils is abandoned, should be removed from Debian

#1035397#5
Date:
2023-05-02 18:43:50 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

pm-utils hasn't had any changed in 13 years upstream.  It's been effectively replaced by
systemd-sleep in all practical ways.

It should be removed from the archive.

#1035397#10
Date:
2023-05-02 18:48:21 UTC
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[Public]

There was a comment on #852167 that there are no non-systemd tools, but that's simply not true.

All you need for a suspend is

echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state

BTW - there's a reason that systemd refuses to include a lot of hooks and quirks.
The scripts/quirks/etc that pm-utils does are presumptuous and generally not correct.

#1035397#15
Date:
2023-05-02 18:48:21 UTC
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[Public]

There was a comment on #852167 that there are no non-systemd tools, but that's simply not true.

All you need for a suspend is

echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state

BTW - there's a reason that systemd refuses to include a lot of hooks and quirks.
The scripts/quirks/etc that pm-utils does are presumptuous and generally not correct.

#1035397#20
Date:
2023-05-02 19:38:24 UTC
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Mario Limonciello writes ("Bug#1035397: pm-utils is abandoned, should be removed from Debian"):
will consider myself upstream, but I think there are probably other
people worth collaborating with.  Anyway, I'm not changing this
package for bookworm at this stage unless to fix a very serious bug.

For the next release, I agree that this package could do with some
love.  It might be worth transferring maintainership to the Debian
Init Diversity Team, and in any case the patches ought to be reviewed
and applied.

For the avoidance of doubt: I would of course welcome constructive
NMUs.  Members of the Debian Init Diversity Team are welcome to do
0-day NMUs.  But, not during the freeze.

Thanks,
Ian.

#1035397#27
Date:
2023-12-21 17:56:09 UTC
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Dear submitter,

as the package pm-utils has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1058701

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

#1035397#34
Date:
2024-01-18 13:26:50 UTC
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Hi Mario

systemctl susped refuses to work when the suspend.target is linked to
/dev/null

Unfortunately I can't review the quirkdb files if they are still right
or not.
But from the age they probably are irrelevant when they have not been
removed since
13 years, counting.

Best,
Alex