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

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Tue Feb 24 18:51:24 UTC 2009


also sprach Filippo Giunchedi <filippo at debian.org> [2009.02.24.1456 +0100]:
> 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)

They work well, and include the netdev policy change.

I have yet to get bluez-alsa to work...

> > 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.

You don't need NET_ADMIN to control bluetooth via dbus, right? At
least I don't seem to get that just by becoming a member of the
netdev group.

I think a separate bluetooth group would make it more granular...

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