Re: Hard code freeze break request for gnome-applets.

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 9/5/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> On Mon, September 5, 2005 05:00, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > I just got a report from 'tseng' on IRC that he is having difficulty
> > with the HAL backend of battstat applet.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315259
> >
> > As always seems to be the case his troubles were caused by a bad ACPI
> > implementation.
> 
> Although the patch looks okay, it's a bit late for hard code freeze and
> this is not a crasher. I'd say the patch should wait, but maybe someone
> else in the release team will think differently.

I agree. (Though I haven't followed the 'worst release ever' thread
yet, so I have no idea how many other open issues we have left.)

> Moreover, it looks like this should really be fixed at the HAL level,
> doesn't it?

Yeah- shouldn't hal return valid values?

Luis (not liking hacking around things we should be able to get fixed)