Ubuntu
laptop-mode-tools package

ships two different sleep.d hooks

Bug #384875 reported by Tormod Volden
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Laptop Mode Tools
Fix Released
Low
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

Binary package hint: laptop-mode-tools

The Jaunty/Karmic laptop-mode-tools 1.47-1ubuntu1 ships both:
 /etc/pm/sleep.d/99laptop-mode
 /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/96laptop-mode

Ideally the distribution should ship the /usr/lib one. If a local administrator installs a hook with the _same_ name in /etc, pm-utils will read the one in /etc instead of the one in /usr/lib.

Currently, both these scripts are read. It looks like Ubuntu added the /usr/lib one originally, then upstream started shipping the /etc one. I think Ubuntu should take the upstream one, patch it, and move it to /usr/lib.

Upstream should be requested to move their hook to /usr/lib.

Tags: bitesize
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote :

Fix has been committed upstream. Thanks for reporting.

Changed in laptop-mode-tools:
assignee: nobody → Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rickysarraf)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)
Changed in laptop-mode-tools:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

We might need some .postinst purging of the old conf file. Ritesh, did you do that in the Debian package?

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

I deleted it like it was done for other files in the Ubuntu preinst (not the full http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling dance).

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote : Re: [Bug 384875] Re: ships two different sleep.d hooks

Hi Tormod,

On Saturday 26 Sep 2009 17:39:20 Tormod Volden wrote:
> We might need some .postinst purging of the old conf file. Ritesh, did
> you do that in the Debian package?
>
 No. We didn't want to purge the conf files. We just started shipping the hook
going forward in /usr instead of /etc.

We left /etc as it is because there could be customizations in it.

Ritesh
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

In Ubuntu, the config file in /etc/ should certainly be removed on upgrade using the normal process for removing obsolete conffiles because running the file in /etc is a *bug*, and causes laptop-mode to be run on suspend/resume even when laptop-mode is not enabled. I think it would be a good idea for Debian to use the same upgrade code, to avoid unnecessary divergence (and to avoid leaving around stale conffiles).

Changed in laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Steve, it is already committed in Debian. I did a slightly cheaper conffile remove in the debdiff here since it was already done this way for other files, but the Debian version has the "clean" conffile treatment.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Well not Debian yet, but upstream http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~laptop-mode-tools-dev/laptop-mode-tools/debian/revision/100

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package laptop-mode-tools - 1.47-1ubuntu2

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laptop-mode-tools (1.47-1ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: do not ship obsolete and broken
    /etc/pm/sleep.d/99laptop-mode (LP: #384875, #437147)
  * debian/laptop-mode-tools.preinst: delete it on upgrades

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * debian/laptop-mode-tools.preinst: use the standard snippet for removing
    obsolete conffiles safely.

 -- Tormod Volden <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:54:30 +0200

Changed in laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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