504261 - Add support for udev; get rid of HAL

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alexandros T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5

According to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html, Firefox requires HAL in order to work properly. In Ubuntu karmic HAL will be replaced by DeviceKit (according to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha2), which means that Firefox may not work properly with the next release of Ubuntu.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Plus http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/system-requirements/ only lists 3.6 and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html Firefox 5. That's ugly...

DeviceKit is (liek HAL) deprecated nowadays, it's udev(-extras) instead. Adjusting summary.

Apart from that, the dependencies list on my Fedora 16 machine does not show hal, but no DeviceKit or udev either. Are you sure that Firefox *in fact* depends on HAL?

$:andre\> rpm -qR firefox-7.0.1-3.fc16.i686
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
gecko-libs(x86-32) = 7.0.1
ld-linux.so.2  
ld-linux.so.2(GLIBC_2.3)  
libatk-1.0.so.0  
libc.so.6  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)  
libcairo.so.2  
libdl.so.2  
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)  
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)  
libfontconfig.so.1  
libfreetype.so.6  
libgcc_s.so.1  
libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)  
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0  
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0  
libgio-2.0.so.0  
libglib-2.0.so.0  
libgmodule-2.0.so.0  
libgobject-2.0.so.0  
libgthread-2.0.so.0  
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0  
libm.so.6  
libmozalloc.so  
libnspr4.so  
libpango-1.0.so.0  
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0  
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0  
libplc4.so  
libplds4.so  
libpthread.so.0  
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)  
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)  
librt.so.1  
libstartup-notification-1.so.0  
libstdc++.so.6  
libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)  
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)  
libxpcom.so  
libxul.so  
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rtld(GNU_HASH)  
system-bookmarks  
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
$:andre\>