[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#893658: Bug#893658: cinnamon: recommend smart-notifier

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey.

On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 16:10 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> smart-notifier has latest build of 6 years ago, if not maintained
> anymore there is more risk of issue or for example in the case will
> not
> migrate to python3 before timelimit and will be removed.
> In that case don't seems a good idea add it to recommends (if not
> really
> needed), or I'm wrong?

Mhh, I wasn't aware that it's unmaintained... :-(
OTOH, the code seems really pretty simple and there is a python3-dbus,
so I'd guess porting it would be not too difficult.

Given it's simplicity, I'd also say that any serious issues are rather
unlikely.


So right now I'd still say, recommend it (otherwise people may only
notice their smart errors if it's too late).
Even *if* it would be dropped from Debian, it would simply be
removed... so no real issue as well (apart from having no SMART error
notification anymore).


I've submitted:
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/7383
asking for some "integrated" SMART notification... but whether this
will be implemented (and when) is completely open, so I'd still say it
makes sense to recommend the existing solution until something better
is there.


Anyway,.. just an idea :-)


Cheers,
Chris-