FS#43325 - [laptop-detect] dmidecode dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Sunday, 04 January 2015, 00:36 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 00:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Isn't dmidecode only an optional dependency?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 00:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Sunday, 04 January 2015, 00:39 GMT
dmidecode is used instead of checking for the battery only if it is
present *and the process has root privileges*.
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 21:40 GMT
I didn't check deeper, but Debian is the upstream of this source, and the package they provide declare dmidecode as a deps.

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/laptop-detect.git/tree/debian/control

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