[ubuntu-x] plans for Lucid?

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:52:22PM +0100, Alberto Milone wrote:
> My patch for -synaptics which allow quirks for touchpads requires hal, as the 
> quirks live in the fdi file. I think I'll have to find another way to do it 
> with udev.

Yeah, this got some discussion at XDC.

> If udev is ready to replace hal with X then it's ok to drop hal. I thought 
> there was no ETA for this though.

The pressure to drop HAL as a requirement for X comes from the boot
speed work.  Apparently HAL has a several second impact on the boot
speed and X is really the only thing remaining which depends on it.

> > Okay, 1.7 is sounding like the logical choice.  Any other considerations
> > we should take into account?  Anyone else have feedback on this choice?
> > 
> 
> I'm ok with either keeping 1.6.x or with upgrading to 1.7.x. After all Lucid 
> will be an LTS.

Thanks,
Bryce