[Bug 505771] [NEW] Quodlibet should not depend on HAL

[André Barmasse]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: quodlibet

As there is a HAL deprecation in the next Ubuntu release (Lucid Lynx) it
would be wise to remove quodlibet's dependency on HAL, too. When I
remove the packages hal and hal-info from lucid lynx alpha 1, quodlibet
does not start up anymore. On the bash console, the program at least
gives the following messages and then exits quietly.

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Initializing audio backend (gstbe)
Initializing main library (~/.quodlibet/songs)
Unterstützte Formate: mod, mp3, mp4, mpc, spc, trueaudio, wav, wavpack, wma, xiph
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 285, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 59, in main
    window = widgets.init(player, library)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/widgets.py", line 75, in init
    Kind.init(library)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/browsers/media.py", line 148, in init
    for udi in devices.discover():
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/devices/__init__.py", line 120, in discover
    return _hal.FindDeviceByCapability('portable_audio_player')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.65" (uid=1000 pid=4931 comm="python) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member="FindDeviceByCapability" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.17" (uid=0 pid=2500 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

** Affects: quodlibet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Quodlibet should not depend on HAL
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505771
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