uswsusp or not?

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 26 19:20:04 BST 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:00:42PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 12:26 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Just drop the Debian-specific patch that uses the uswsusp code at all. 
> > It's an entirely unnecessary deviation from upstream that results in 
> > increased awkwardness.

> > s2ram was dropped because people in the forums were encouraging people 
> > to install and use it, rather than reporting bugs about the Ubuntu code. 
> > It duplicates the functionality of pmutils and its presence causes user 
> > confusion.

> Thanks for the information Matthew. I have proposed the attached patch
> which removes the "auto" setting.

Could we actually drop the patch from the package, rather than just dropping
it from the series file?  Otherwise, it's a bit opaque when it comes time to
review.

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