[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385857: please upgrade to bluez-utils and bluez-libs 3.4

[Flavio Stanchina]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: wishlist

Yesterday I bought a Bluetooth USB dongle to connect with my mobile
phone, but I had some problems with discovery and sending files from
phone to computer. I'm using bluez-utils and kdebluetooth on Debian
testing/unstable.

The problem with discovery was the well-known issue with ISCAN, but
after I fixed that I still wasn't able to send files from phone to
computer. Finally I packaged bluez-libs and bluez-utils 3.4 and it
worked at the first try, so I suspect the "couple of issues of the D-Bus
based API" fixed in 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 are significant after all.

bluez-libs compiled out of the box by just unpacking and moving the
debian directory over, but bluez-utils needs some work:

* remove bluez-bcm203x package (bcm203x firmware loader removed upstream)
* remove 000_rfcomm_conf_example.patch: the example is already commented
* remove 004_rfcomm_usage.patch: applied upstream

Also note that apparently it is important to remove leftover stuff from
/var/lib/bluetooth/<device> to fix the ISCAN issue; it is also probably
a good idea to add "discovto 0;" to the default configuration file (see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384379).

Finally, upstream added udev rules for Bluetooth serial PCMCIA cards; I
don't know if these udev rules are useful.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11-athlon
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
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  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-14      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
ii  udev                         0.093-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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