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Hi, I maintain pm-utils, and I want to drop them soon, because systemd can handle (sort of) suspend and hibernation and also becouse their upstream is dead and I'm not able to (and don't want to) fix all the bugs all by myself. There is some information and an initial discussion on the topic here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790157
The current state is that pm-utils are sort of "plugged in" to systemd and are called from systemd to perform suspend and hibernate, if they are installed. Doesn't work too well.
So I'm interested in other people's opinions on how this should be done and in particular what hooks you would like to see rewritten as systemd units, since I can usually do that.
IMO the most important hook is 99Zgrub that prevents to boot another OS if we have hibernated, I've already rewritten that one, if someone wants to look at it or test it (just put it in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep, hibernate without pm-utils and see if the grub menu appears when you turn the computer on - it shouldn't) , here's the link: http://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=569356 I just modified it at the end, so it works as a systemd unit, but all the functions are the same as in 99ZGrub from pm-utils.
I also think it would be nice to have a "transitional period", when pm-utils won't be used as default, but if someone would be unhappy with using systemd for suspending, pm-utils could be installed.
So please share your thoughts on this.
I also realize there are people who would like to keep pm-utils, but unfortunately I'm not able to fix those bugs any more, so if someone wants to disagree with dropping pm-utils, that person would have to become the maintainer and fix all the bugs (or find someone else to do it), because I can't and don't want to, thanks for understanding.
Wojtek Dziewięcki