[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385019: I also need bdaddr

[Ralph Aichinger]

I want to chime in as another user who needed bdaddr and had to download
and compile it manually. There is a completely trivial application of
bdaddr being needed by end users: In order to pair a Wii game console
remote to the computer, the adapter's MAC has to be changed. bdaddr is
the only program in Linux to do this. There are countless tutorials 
to be googled that advise to download&compile bdaddr.

I also don't think the argument "command xy is too dangerous for the
end user, therefore we don't include it" holds water. There are very
many commands in Linux and Unix in general that are very dangerous
and can destroy a system at the selection of the wrong switch or 
option. One of the most trivial examples is "rm", that has been
shipped by Debian from the beginning. If you remove any potentially
"dangerous" program, the archive would be very empty.

bdaddr is documented very well, has its own manpage, and is required
in several end user scenarios.

With hope you reconsider (either as part of bluez-utils or as part
of another package, I do think it is too small for its own package)
and thanks for your packaging work for bluez, which works really
well for me,

/ralph 
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