Updating SRU exception for hal-info

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Technical Board and SRU team,

some years ago we established an SRU exception for hal-info to supply
updated keymaps, music players, etc. into stable releases, in
particular LTSes [1].

Since hal and hal-info are deprecated, I would like to update this to:

== udev keymaps ==

udev ships a set of rules and keyboard maps which provide correct
hotkey assignments for individual laptop and USB hardware, and fixes
"stuck" keys on buggy BIOSes. Those maps can be backported to the
current LTS release(s). After one week of maturing in -proposed and no
regression bug reports it can be moved to -updates. 

== music player info ==

The media-player-info package ships udev rules to identify USB music
players as such, to provide tight desktop integration. It is an
architecture: all textual data-only package which has a very low
regression potential. Newer versions can be backported to the current
LTS release(s). After one week of maturing in -proposed and no 
regression bug reports it can be moved to -updates.


One particular example that is on my list is
https://launchpad.net/bugs/271706, bugs like this suck a lot (you
accidentally press a hotkey on a broken BIOS and your desktop
freezes).

So essentially this change would just account for the deprecation of
hal-info in favor of the fanning out to udev and media-player-info,
but would not actually change the spirit of the exception.

Do you have any concerns about this? If not, I'd do the change to [1]
in some days.

Thank you,

Martin

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#hal-info
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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