[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#531449: bluez-alsa: Provide a smooth transition from (or to) bluez-audio

[Frédéric Brière]

Package: bluez-alsa
Severity: normal

bluez-alsa currently only Replaces bluez-audio, and with no dependency
going the other way.  This poses two problems:

1) There's no obvious sign pointing to a transition from bluez-audio to
bluez-alsa.  (The bluez-alsa description doesn't help on that aspect.)
bluez-alsa will only be pulled as part of the admin->bluetooth->alsa
dependency chain, and that last link is only a Recommends anyway.

2) Installing and removing bluez-alsa (because 4.40 doesn't work for me)
will leave behind a broken bluez-audio, missing its plugins.  (Sure,
it's obvious in retrospect, but I wasted a couple of hours on this.)


Unless there's a reason to have bluez-alsa and bluez-audio cohabit, I
would argue that the former should at the very least Conflict with the
latter.  (A Provide would also be appropriate if both plugins are
interchangeable.)

It also wouldn't hurt to provide a dummy bluez-audio package, like you
did for bluez-utils->bluetooth.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686-sco (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez-alsa depends on:
ii  libasound2                    1.0.20-1   shared library for ALSA applicatio
pn  libbluetooth3                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  libc6                         2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

bluez-alsa recommends no packages.

bluez-alsa suggests no packages.