On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 17:16 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > 2013-05-06 11:13, Peter Robinson skrev: > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Heya, > >> > >> In Fedora 20, we'll be using BlueZ 5.x to manage Bluetooth devices. > >> > >> Bluez5 uses a D-Bus API that's not compatible with Bluez4[1] and as > >> such, management applications and a number of libraries and daemons will > >> need to be ported. > >> > >> For GNOME 3.10 (due September 2013), Gustavo Padovan and I are going to > >> be porting gnome-bluetooth, NetworkManager and PulseAudio to BlueZ5. > >> Packages for BlueZ5 will be available as soon as we figure out how to > >> integrate a few downstream features that were in the Fedora packages. > >> > >> Bluez4 and Bluez5 are not parallel-installable, and incompatible, so > >> other applications relying on Bluez4 will need to be ported by their > >> respective maintainers. > > > > > > Any analysis to what packages are affected, how many are yet to > > support the new API and how hard it will be for them to be ported > > over. > > I took a look to see what the impact would be. I am not a BlueZ expert, > so Bastien, please correct me if I am wrong somewhere. > > BlueZ ships a daemon and provides two main interfaces for applications > to use it: > > 1) libbluetooth shared library > > 2) org.bluez DBus API > > The TL;DL version is that in my findings, the only package that still > needs porting to bluez 5 is blueman. Others should either just continue > working, or need new versions packaged up. <snip> > The following use the DBus API: > > blueman [Status: needs porting to 5.x] > gnome-bluetooth [Status: ported] > libbluedevil [Status: port available in a git branch, > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108912/] > pulseaudio [Status: ported] And NetworkManager. There's probably a number of applications that use bluez via D-Bus without requiring it as a dependency if the functionality isn't the main one, so there's likely going to be other impacted packages. NetworkManager is in the process of being ported. You're also missing obex-data-server, obsoleted and not ported to BlueZ 5, which is used by gnome-user-share (patches are upstream to be ported) and gvfs-obexftp (won't be ported). Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
