Suspend2 (Dagobah's packages)

[Alexander Skwar]

· Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:

> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 
>> On 7/27/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>>> · Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> > you."  So I think unless someone plans to propose to the technical
>>> > committee something more convincing than "but it's better because, um,
>>> > because I said!" then it's not going to change.
>>>
>>> Is "it works and the in-kernel code doesn't work" convincing
>>> enough?
>> 
>> No, it's not convincing enough.  Replacing the suspend code in the
>> kernel that Ubuntu ships places an onerous burden to continue
>> maintaining it into the future. 
> 
> Not to mention the fact that it isn't true _in general_, anyway.  Some
> people haven't had success with suspend2 (of course, perhaps because it
> requires you to do-it-yourself),

What do you mean with "it requires you to do-it-yourself"?

>> It will place the Ubuntu development 
>> team in the position of maintaining a kernel fork that uses a
>> completely different suspend subsystem.  
> 
> And that, aiui, no longer has a maintainer.

What has no maintainer? suspend2.net seems active.

Alexander Skwar
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