[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#552185: [gnome-bluetooth] read/write access to the /dev/rfkill device is required

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gnome-bluetooth
Version: 2.28.3-1
Severity: minor

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Dear Andrea et al,

according to /usr/share/doc/gnome-bluetooth/README "read/write access to
the /dev/rfkill device is required and should be provided by the
distribution". Well, I have /dev/rfkill, but as a normal user I have
neither read nor write access to it:

ls -l /dev/rfkill 
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 60 24. Okt 01:54 /dev/rfkill

The ubuntu package provides a udev rule in
61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules which deals with this issue. However, I
really doubt that gnome-bluetooth is the right package to provide such a
udev rule. Please cross-check with the udev maintainer. Anyway, please
enable rfkill for users in a reasonable way. ;)

Thanks,
Fabian


--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.31-trunk-686

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 testing         ftp2.de.debian.org 
  450 unstable        ftp2.de.debian.org 
  400 experimental    ftp2.de.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                     (Version) | Installed
=====================================-+-==============
libatk1.0-0               (>= 1.20.0) | 1.28.0-1
libc6                   (>= 2.3.6-6~) | 2.10.1-1
libcairo2                  (>= 1.2.4) | 1.8.8-2
libdbus-1-3                (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.16-2
libdbus-glib-1-2            (>= 0.78) | 0.82-2
libfontconfig1             (>= 2.4.0) | 2.6.0-4
libfreetype6               (>= 2.2.1) | 2.3.9-5
libgconf2-4               (>= 2.27.0) | 2.28.0-1
libglib2.0-0              (>= 2.18.0) | 2.22.2-2
libgnome-bluetooth7       (>= 2.28.1) | 2.28.3-1
libgtk2.0-0               (>= 2.16.0) | 2.18.2-1
libnotify1                 (>= 0.4.5) | 0.4.5-1
libnotify1-gtk2.10                    | 
libpango1.0-0             (>= 1.14.0) | 1.26.0-1
libunique-1.0-0            (>= 1.0.0) | 1.1.2-2
zlib1g                   (>= 1:1.1.4) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15
gconf2                  (>= 2.10.1-2) | 2.28.0-1
bluez                       (>= 4.36) | 4.42-2
obexd-client                          | 0.14-1


Recommends         (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
gvfs-backends                | 1.4.1-1


Suggests             (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-===========
nautilus-sendto                | 1.1.5-1