[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] bluez-audio vs. bluetooth-alsa?

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:12:17PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Hi Fillipo,
> 
> thanks for your fast response.
> 
> Am Donnerstag 24 Januar 2008 schrieb Filippo Giunchedi:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:07:27PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > > bluez-audio has a gstreamer plugin(?) but misses everything even closely
> > > related to the word "documentation". No word about which bluetooth
> > > profiles are supported. No word about how to use it.
> > >
> > > I don't think we need two packages in Debian that eventually do the same.
> > > Which one is going to have a future?
> >
> > It is my understanding that bluetooth-alsa is obsolete, as reported on
> > http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices
> 
> Could the bluez-audio package drop the useless README file (actually and 
> INSTALL file looking at its contents) and provide a README.Debian with a copy 
> of that page?

that's the upstream README and I'd like to keep that.
I'll have a look at copying wiki HOWTOs to the package though, thanks for the
suggestion.

> 
> bluetooth-alsa also handles AVRCP. Is there any application that can handle 
> the provides dbus messages or, to not have to adapt every single app out 
> there, injects standard keycodes into the input layer of the kernel?

I am sorry I don't know :(

filippo
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