Comment 32 for bug 223812

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:12 +0000, Hanno Stock (hefe_bia) wrote:
> Daniel Gimpelevich schrieb:
> > I installed the package in your PPA, and it crashed the system badly;
> > I'm not sure why. I had to boot to recovery mode and reinstall the
> > package.
>
> I am sorry to hear that. However I have no clue, what would cause that,
> since I have installed and uninstalled all versions of the package for
> which I made a debdiff without problems.
> Did you reinstall the PPA version or the official version?

The PPA.

> > Also, I think the gnome-power-manager package should be changed to
> > default to "nothing" instead, because then, it would still be OK to
> > install after powernowd, [...]
>
> I think that could be an option. But this way g-p-m would do nothing
> even if powernowd is not installed.

Only by default; it could still be changed in gconf, which is how it
should be. It's academic anyway, since powernowd is part of the base
system install, rather than some optional add-on.

> Reviewing the postrm/-inst scripts I think it might not be at all
> necessary to test for the presence of g-p-m. One could install the
> mandatory defaults regardless of whether g-p-m is installed.
> What HAS to be installed for this to work is gconftool-2.

Again, this does not account for the case where gconftool-2 is installed
after powernowd.