[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Anyone want to maintain acpid?

[Damjan]

>>> For some reason, I am assigned as a maintainer for acpid, but I never
>>> actually touched it. It is out of date and has a number of bugs. Any takers?
>>
>> I though this had been deprecated for years? Are there still some
>> relevant use cases? If so, there is a new version in AUR:
>> <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33871>.
> 
> People still use it. What has been deprecated is the /proc/acpi/event
> interface.
> 
> Though, most acpi events are now translated to input events.

Even when they are, acpid still has its use to handle these events on a
system level, no matter if you have a user session (*DE) running or if
you even have X running.

My use case is to handle the suspend and hibernate buttons.


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дамјан