[Pkg-bluetooth-discuss] Re: announcing bluetooth maintainers group

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:00:23PM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >> Closing, in pkg-bluetooth's side that would be good coordinate with
> >> joeyh a new bluetooth support task. Just a set of packages that once
> >> installed will support as much as possible bluetooth devices.
> >
> >there's a bluetooth-desktop metapackage, also Suggesting packages there 
> >might be
> >of any help.
> >Note that after the bluez-utils installation most stuff works out of the 
> >box
> >(commandline-wise, that is, most stuff is in the kernel). Going to the 
> >desktop
> >there's kdebluetooth and gnome-bluetooth (which is kinda unmaintained in 
> >debian
> >and some unclear license issues which can be easily resolved IMO)
> >
> 
> Oh, thanks for pointing out the bluetooth related metapackages
> (bluetooth and bluetooth-desktop). That's the tasksel point. We can
> get rid of the metapackages and the associated problems.

indeed, the packages (especially -desktop) were required for fixing some
problems with bluez-pin helper (not required anymore).

bluetooth-desktop can be safely dropped IMO, not sure about bluetooth.

> 
> Joey, i suggest you add the "bluetooth-desktop" task, adding there:
> bluez-utils, bluez-pin. Well, at this moment i don't think it will
> hurt merge these two packages in desktop task (like we did with
> printing support). We can split this stuff out of desktop task once i
> finnish the suggestion feature work in gnome-tasksel and that other
> tool.

as pointed out, bluez-pin is now obsolete, I'm going to drop the dependencies
right now.

> 
> Filippo, what about stuff like bluez-cups and others ?

bluez-bcm203x is rather obsolete as well, bluez-cups might be useful but as a
suggestion, not more.

filippo
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