[Bug 2136941] [NEW] Please remove powertop-1.13 from resolute

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Jeremy Bícha (jbicha):

Please remove powertop-1.13 from resolute. It is a long unmaintained
version of powertop and is an Ubuntu-specific package.

Unfortunately, the changelog entries don't include a Launchpad bug or an
explanation of why this fork of powertop was needed.

Repology shows that there is one other distro that packaged 1.13 separately: Alt Linux. In 2011, its maintainer wrote
"- rebuilt as powertop1 conflicting with powertop
  since powertop 2.x UI is inferior to me so far
  even if its capabilities are remarkably higher"
https://repology.org/project/powertop/versions
https://packages.altlinux.org/en/p10/srpms/powertop1/specfiles/

Alt Linux's version got one additional patch in 2012 and then like
Ubuntu, it's package hasn't received any changes to the upstream code.

Since 2011, powertop 2 has continued to receive updates. Ubuntu Desktop
includes and integrates power-profiles-daemon by default which provides
a simple and easy way to adjust power performance. tuned and tlp were
also packaged for Debian after that point. But it looks like no one is
maintaining a powertop 1.x fork.

I'm subscribing Evan, Jamie, and Loïc to this bug. If I don't hear back
from them by end of January, I'll subscribe ubuntu-archive to this
removal bug.

** Affects: powertop-1.13 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: resolute
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Please remove powertop-1.13 from resolute
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2136941
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