[Splashy-devel] Bug#599245: splashy: negative impacts ...

[Osamu Aoki]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Oct  9, 2010 at 00:43:53 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 
> > Package: splashy
> > Version: 0.3.13-5.1+b1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Splashy is not very usable since it did not have time/rsource to get
> > updated for squeeze.
> > 
> > But if we simply remove splashy (we already removed usplash/bootsplash),
> > then we miss libsplashy1.  Since uswsusp depends on libsplashy as of
> > now, it also breaks uswsusp.
> > 
> > Negative cycle ....
> > 
> uswsusp hasn't been in testing for over a year:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/uswsusp.html

I realize I installed it from unstable... Sorry for my noise.

I think I installed it from sid since Gnome was not giving me good hibernate...

So in one sense, it is no problem to remove splashy from testing.

But do we have reasonable pretty boot screen and smooth suspnd-to-disk
both of which are expected for most desktop systems?  What are we
recommending?

Osamu