[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] bluetooth input stuff in Debian

[Joachim Breitner]

user pkg-fso-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
usertag 482081 + bluetooth
usertag 477838 + bluetooth
thanks

Hi,

while trying to get remoko[1] to work on Debian, I always stumbled about
this error message:

dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
Method "IsRunning" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Service"
doesn't exist

Skipping some lenghty googling and trying around, here is what I found
out:

Debian’s bluez-utils ships a daemon called hidd for HID interaction.
This has been deprecated upstream in favour of a file
called /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-input which then provides
dbus functionality.[2]

There are two uncommented bug reports open about this:
#482081 (important) asks for the inclusion of all these plugins
#477838 (wishlist) asks for just service-input.
Both are more than three months old.

Ubuntu has had these enabled since January[3]. OpenEmbedded has them,
and some google results indicated that RedHat has them as well.

bluez-utils is actively maintained, at least there have been uploads
recently. Unfortunaltey, I could not find any message from the
maintenance team as to why the Debian package does not support this yet.

Dear bluez maintainers, would it be possible to include these plugins in
a near upload of bluez-utils, possible to experimental? You’d do us a
favor!

Thanks,
Joachim

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Bluetooth_remote_controller
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bluetooth-maintainers/2008-February/001450.html
[3] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_3.26-0ubuntu6/changelog
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