[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#530829: Bug#530829: bluez-gnome: receive file doesn't work, gnome-user-share not usable

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu May 28 12:25:31 UTC 2009


On jeu, 2009-05-28 at 14:01 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:17:26AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since the last bluez-gnome update, it seems that the file receiving isn't
> > implemented anymore using gnome-vfs-obexftp but by gnome-user-share (the
> > only mention of that is in the changelog though, no Recommends: or stuff in
> > README.Debian). That's a good thing there is no Recommends anyway, because
> > gnome-user-share would bring apache, which is usually not a common soft
> > user want to have on its laptop.
> 
> agreed, a note is in order. Note also that now gvfs-backends is recommended and
> a bug was filed to enable obex backend though AFAIK gnome-vfs-obexftp doesn't
> act as obex server but simply as a obex browser.

Ok so what exactly is needed to be able to receive files with bluetooth?
The g-u-s stuff?

And gnome-vfs-obexftp is still needed for browsing remote devices? (I
had the impression that the recommends was dropped because it was
replaced by gvfs-backends.

So I'm a bit lost here.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis






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