On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). Why? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
