On Wednesday 04 Jun 2014 23:27:05 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200
> > 
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision
> >> still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been
> >> bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils.
> >> 
> >> Anyone that feels like doing it can now step up to the plate and
> >> continue the work upower was doing earlier.
> > 
> > I don't understand the development status of upower-pm-utils.  Is there
> > someone either upstream or with Gentoo committed to maintaining it?
> 
> No, nobody is actively working on it, it's the abandoned upstream git
> branch that used to be master before 0.99.0's release:
> 
> Current sys-power/upower-pm-utils is same as latest code from
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/log/?h=0.9
> And last commit is 2013
> 
> I might backport some fixes from git master over at some point later,
> but I won't do any promises
> 
> > Or
> > is it a git branch created just to meet the current needs of
> > non-systemd Gentoo users?
> 
> It's to be considered as a temporary solution for applications that need
> the Hibernate and Suspend functionality
> from UPower for non-systemd users, applications like
> mate-session-manager, lxsession, uevt, and so forth
> 
> Migrating to >=sys-power/upower-0.99.0 is the recommended path to take
> if at all possible. It's possible for eg.
> Xfce users, because Xfce in ~arch integrated sys-power/pm-utils support
> directly for Hibernate and Suspend
> Also, GNOME 3.12 requires 0.99.0

Hi Samuli,

Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a gentoo 
user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they want/need to continue 
using sleep and hibernate?

-- 
Regards,
Mick