Proposing general SRU exception: hal-info

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> With our LTS SRUs focusing on constantly improving hardware support, I
> propose to add another special case to [1]: I would like to regularly
> update hardy with new versions of hal-info.
> 
> This package contains Hal FDI files which provide information for
> suspend/resume quirks, keymaps for "special keys" (brightness, volume,
> Fn-Keys), information about USB music players, battery recalls, and
> the like.
> 
> It just contains of XML data, no code at all. Hal is robust against
> errors in the XML, it won't crash (just ignore the broken file).
> However, it reports misformatted XML files, so this check should
> become part of the SRU procedure.
> 
> In a way, hal-info is for hardware what tzdata is for your clock.
> 
> Proposed amendment:
> 
>   hal-info
> 
>   The hal-info package contains descriptions, quirks, and other
>   information about hardware components, in particular for
>   suspend/resume, Laptop Fn keys, broken batteries, and multimedia
>   devices. It gets frequent updates in stable LTS releases. After one
>   week of maturing in -proposed and no regression bug reports it can
>   be moved to hal-updates.
> 
> What do you think?

Sounds good to me.

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 - mdz