[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#499529: Bug#499529: bluez 4.x status update

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:08:38PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > I don't think you are alone at all in your dislike of dbus.  In
> > fact, I can't really claim to understand what difference netdev
> > made in this case, based on bluetooth.conf.  I too am in the
> > netdev group on my machine.
> 
> That was with 3.x packages, where the dbus configuration also gave
> members of the netdev group permission to send those messages, so
> once I added myself into that group, it worked.
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-bluetooth/packages/bluez-utils/trunk/debian/bluetooth-dbus.conf?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> Unfortunately, your 4.x packages install a dbus policy file that
> only relies on at_console, but there is no dependency or
> recommendation for libpam-foreground, which seems to be required for
> that to work.

JFTR I made an upload of 4.x in experimental, currently sitting in NEW but
svn-buildpackage of the current trunk ought to work. (also bluez-gnome updated)

[...]

> Why it's the netdev group, I don't know. Maybe introducing
> a bluetooth group would be better?

My reasoning is that controlling bluetooth requires NET_ADMIN capability (see
#510644) and netdev seems a good fit, though I'm open to suggestions.

filippo
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