Am Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:28:56 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>: > Hi guys, > > Once pulseaudio and bluedevil moves out of [testing], the only > official package depending on bluez4 will be blueman. > > As blueman was last released two years ago, and last upstream activity > was more than one year ago and that bluez4 is no longer developed > upstream at all, I suggest dropping both of them from the > repositories. > > Any objections? > > Cheers, > > Tom > I've done some work and research on bluez lately. I can confirm my adapters to work with bluez 5.10 and gnome-bluetooth (connecting to headset + smartphone) that has already moved to extra. I couldn't make it work with kde+bluedevil that is in testing. Also it seems not possible to use plain bluetoothctl to pair (works sometimes)/connect(never working here) your device and use plain alsa/obex. This is an annoying situation for any other desktop apart from Gnome. Blueman is broken and for many users not even starting. No idea about our networkmanager bluetooth support. Fedora 20 has switched over to only use bluez v5, OpenSuSE is also using it. We should search further how to solve kde and plain console situation. Is Bluez4 still required to use with obexd? If not we can drop it and focus on improving bluez5 support. Best would be to get bluez connecting to devices from console or/and to have a desktop independent frontend like this approach: http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2013-July/030408.html -Andy
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