Might not have looked in the correct place, but I was unable to find
any policy for the  /usr/lib/pm-utils/*.d/ and /etc/pm/*.d/
directories.  IMHO this is urgently needed.

I just discovered that aiccu had added a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d
which make the system hang for seconds on resume, unless you've got
a working network.  Totally unacceptable to me. A policy
regulating runtimes for such scripts would be welcome.

Looking at the other scripts installed in /etc/pm/sleep.d on my
laptop, I was even more surprised to find that unattended-upgrades
had installed a script which will make hibernate wait until a
running unattended-upgrades job is finished.  I can see how this
will scale if any package installing cron jobs should do the same...
A policy stating both what kind of actions are acceptable, and
setting maximum delays, is obviously necessary.

In addition, there seem to be a bit of confusion whether packages
should add hooks to /etc/pm/ or /usr/lib/pm-utils/.  Policy required
here as well.

I will of course report bugs against aiccu and unattended-upgrades
as well.  But the fact that they do implement such hooks demonstrates
the need for clarification.


Bjørn

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pm-utils depends on:
ii  console-tools            1:0.2.3dbs-69.1 Linux console and font utilities
ii  powermgmt-base           1.31            Common utils and configs for power

Versions of packages pm-utils recommends:
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system utilities
ii  radeontool                    1.6.1-1    utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii  vbetool                       1.1-2      run real-mode video BIOS code to a

Versions of packages pm-utils suggests:
ii  cpufrequtils                  007-1      utilities to deal with the cpufreq

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