[Bug 616324] [NEW] Downgrade hal to Recommends?

[Malte S. Stretz]

Public bug reported:

I just checked and there are only two packages left on my system
(running KDE 4.5 from the PPA) which depend on hal: kdebase-runtime and
kubuntu-desktop, where kdebase-runtime only Recommends it. KDE 4.5 isn't
ready for a full HAL removal, but KDE 4.6 might.  So looking forward for
that release, maybe the dependency on the hal package in kubuntu-desktop
could be lowered from Depends to Recommends with the next kubuntu-
desktop update?

This request is similar to bug 550631, with the difference of not
completely dropping the dependency.

I know I could also remove the kubuntu-destop metapackage once HAL isn't
needed anymore but I was bitten by that once (upon a time) when I did a
dist-upgrade and update-manager threw away half of my packages for some
(probably backports related) reason.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kubuntu-desktop 1.174.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 11 14:04:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kubuntu-meta

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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Downgrade hal to Recommends?
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