On 02/12/15 12:02, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> On 02/12/15 11:40, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:17:00AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>>> On 02/12/15 08:50, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>>> Yes, the crippled version in jessie requires systemd (possibly via -shim) to
>>>> do its job. The last good version is 0.9.23.
>>
>>>> Fortunately that's the only package from the utopia stack that needs such a
>>>> revert, all others require merely changing dependencies and arguments to
>>>> configure and rebuilding.

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> From what I can tell upower has dropped the support for
> suspend/hibernate presumably because it is orthogonal to what upower is
> about, and presumably for systemd, that is handled in systemd directly,
> probably via logind.

I can confirm this is the case:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2013-October/001519.html
>
> It may be better to split out that functionality into a separate package
> then try and maintain the old upower - especially given that upower no
> longer depends on systemd/polkit as a result.

Maintaining the older version seems to be the sensible short term
approach, but we will need a permanent fix in the form of a separate
polkit/session manager interface...



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