On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 19:53 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > Hi all, Hi, > This might be a viewed as a fire torch, but there is, IMO, a major > regression in BlueZ 5 which is shipped in Fedora 20. I agree. But everyone probably already knows that. > It doesn't support > HSP/HFP headset profiles, which enables the microphone on many bluetooth > headsets. Indeed -- which is a showstopper for anyone that uses a bluetooth headset as their primary means of VOX communications. > Anyhow, not supporting HSP/HSP profiles is at least hitting my work > ability, and I doubt I'm alone in this situation. No, you are definitely not alone. I abandoned F20 because of it. > Now, if I had known this before I started upgrading to F20, I wouldn't > have upgraded yet but stayed on F19 a bit longer. This is a perfect example of why I always (LVM) snapshot my existing (F19 at the time) OS before I start an upgrade. Rolling back is really as simple as updating the /etc/fstab on the snapshot-/ and creating a grub entry to boot from the snapshot-/. I've had to roll back to F19 on both my corporate laptop due to this particular issue and my personal workstation due to other issues, so I am very grateful for my cautiousness. > So, I wonder if it can be considered to enable a "downgrade path" for > bluez and depending packages, as described in the "Contingency Plan": > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Bluez5> As I understand it's really not quite that simple. The problem is that the GNOME that's in F20 depends on Bluez5 and won't work with Bluez4 so downgrading Bluez to 4 also means downgrading GNOME. IIRC there was a third dependency in all of that but I forget what it is. > As a side note, it also needs to be discussed how such a key feature of > the bluetooth stack could go unnoticed through QA, and how to avoid this > from happening again. Indeed. I wondered the same myself. Cheers, b.
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