[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#383373: hcid: package upgrade loses keyboard

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-3.1
Severity: normal

I've just dist-upgraded to latest packages in testing. Part of that
upgrade wanted to replace bluez-utils. It stopped hcid, among other
things, leaving me with no keyboard left to answer the questions about
config files. I had to find a USB keyboard to finish the process until
it started up again.

Perhaps, as a special case, this upgrade logic could leave the old hcid
running while answering questions on the config file, and only when
things are happy could it stop/start to the new code. Admittedly this
still has potential for breakage, but in common cases where it goes
smoothly it'll still work.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-mh3.nim
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  libbluetooth2                3.1-1       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-10      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-82    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-6  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-15 System-V-like init utilities
hi  udev                         0.093-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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