Halsectomy
Summary
Hal is in the process of being deprecated, since it has become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess, and also duplicates a lot of functionality which are nowadays provided by udev and the kernel itself. Please see David Zeuthen's and Kay Siever's summaries of plans.
Tracker bug for Gnome related packages: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593938
Migration in Ubuntu
Functionality |
Comment |
Upstream Status |
Who |
Ubuntu Status |
Device ACLs |
moved to udev |
DONE |
Kay Sievers |
DONE |
Fn/Multimedia key handling |
moved to udev |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
DONE |
libgphoto2 camera handling |
needs tagging as libgphoto device (patch sent and committed); (discussion); libgphoto2_port/disk/disk.c falls back to /etc/mtab reading without hal, which is functionally equivalent |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
DONE |
hal-cups-utils printer detection |
needs migration to libudev (discussion started); WIP in git tree; Code base is there, successfully tested that it works with HPLIP, scales with high numbers of USB printers (plugged 10 at the same time), ...; Packaged for Ubuntu with the source package system-config-printer, as binary package system-config-printer-udev; Closed/Moved all hal-cups-admin bug reports |
DONE |
Tim Waugh, Till Kamppeter |
DONE |
NM device detection |
NM uses gudev now; needs upstream release/packaging |
DONE |
Dan Williams |
DONE |
Pulseaudio |
migrated to libudev in 0.9.16test1 |
DONE |
Lennart Poettering |
DONE |
GNOME storage handling |
gvfs uses DeviceKit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; gvfs backends were ported to libudev (cdda, gphoto, obexftp); applied in 1.3.4 |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
DONE |
checkbox |
convert to udevadm info --export-db and grep -r . /sys/class/dmi/id/ Bug report |
DONE |
Abel Deuring |
DONE |
identify media players and capabilities |
discussion; script written, converted data available, call for comments; started fd.o project |
DONE |
Martin Pitt, Christophe Fergeau |
DONE |
Rhythmbox music player detection |
Rhythmbox uses gudev now. Karmic package needs upgrade to 0.12.4 version |
DONE |
|
DONE |
gnome-bluetooth |
Ubuntu bug report filled |
DONE |
|
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GDM |
Not in upstream, Ubuntu patch (sent to upstream; in progress to migrate to libxklavier |
|
Martin Pitt |
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X.org input device detection |
Julian Cristau created a branch, Martin Pitt created udev rules; applied in debian git now. Also, take a look at the Peter Hutterer blog post; applied upstream now |
|
DONE |
|
pm-utils suspend quirks |
transition hal-info rules to easy format, integrate into pm-utils itself; discussion started with upstream, in progress |
DONE |
Victor Lowther, Martin Pitt |
DONE |
cheese |
Upstream report filled |
|
DONE |
|
Evolution |
Upstream report filled |
|
DONE |
|
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good |
Since 0.10.16 (already in karmic ) gstreamer0.10-plugins-good uses gudev |
|
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GNOME power management |
g-p-m uses DeviceKit-power now. HAL support has been dropped upstream |
Richard Hughes |
TODO |
|
liboobs |
Library required by gnome-system-tools. The HAL requirement is optional |
DONE |
|
DONE |
xfce4-power-manager |
Fixed upstream in 0.9.98; Ubuntu: available in xubuntu-dev PPA |
|
INPROGRESS |
|
thunar |
Done in 1.1.0, in xubuntu-dev PPA |
DONE |
|
INPROGRESS |
thunar-volman |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
Banshee music player detection |
|
|
TODO |
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Amarok music player detection |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
Gimp |
Upstream report filled |
|
TODO |
|
gnome-pilot |
Upstream report filled |
|
TODO |
|
landscape-client |
|
TODO |
Landscape team |
TODO |
digikam |
upstream report filed? it appears that digikam relies on HAL to determine the physical location for a photo collection and requires this to be correct. It is intended for handling collections on usb storage or cdroms, identifying them by uuid |
? |
TODO |
|
xfce4-volstatus-icon |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
xfce4-governor-plugin |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
xfce4-cddrive-plugin |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
xfburn |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |
pitivi |
upstream report filed |
|
TODO |
|
pcscd |
|
TODO |
|
TODO |