On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 15:58 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > So, if I understand correctly, the current situation is the following: > > 1. oFono patches have been fully merged. > 2. Wim Taymans patches have not been merged yet (or at least not completely) > 3. Even if Wim's patches are merged, we (debian) will have to choose > between oFono or native at compile time. > 4. Either patchset is not complete, in that one supports HSP and the other HFP. > 5. In practice, the above is not terribly important, because most > devices support both. > 6. oFono requires manual configuration by the user. I'm not sure about the last point. Perhaps it's possible for the distro to provide a working default configuration. > With the above understanding, I'm thinking that we could work around > problem 3 by building pulseaudio twice and shipping the relevant > modules in separate conflicting packages. Not sure if that would be > too confusing for users. > > If ofono requires manual configuration (and does the ofono support > have a minimum version requirement? Debian currently has 1.9), I think > it would be better for us to use the native backend, if it manages to > be upstreamed in time. I'm sure the oFono support has a minimum version requirement, but unfortunately I don't know what that is. We should put the information in the release notes, so someone should figure out the minimum version before the release... I filed a release blocker bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84414 -- Tanu
