[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#663919: upgrade from version 4.96 to 4.98 or 4.99 breaks usability

[Oz Nahum Tiram]

Package: bluez
Version: 4.99-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
an upgrade of the package

I have been using my bluetooth speakers happily with Debian bluez version
4.96
using the following configuration:

~$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.bluetooth {
    type bluetooth
        device 00:02:3C:26:BA:87 # change this MAC address using the
command "hcitool scan"
         profile "auto"
         }

pcm.!default {
     type hw
     card 0
     device 0
}


using bluetooth pairing I was able to use either vlc or mplayer to play
music through the
bluetooth speakers.

However, upgrading that packages rendered the speakers unusable. I
downgraded the package,
and installed manually the files from bluez-4.99 to their correct paths,
until I found that
the problematic file that causes the change of behaviour is
/usr/sbin/bluetoothd.

* What was the outcome of this action?

with /usr/sbin/bluetoothd from 4.99 I am getting the following errors:
root at somehost:# /etc/init.d/bluetooth stop
root at somehost:# cp /usr/sbin/bluetoothd.ORG.4.99 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
root at somehost:# /etc/init.d/bluetooth start

user at somehost:~/Music/$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth Road.mp3
Failed to read /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.local: No such file or directory
Warning unknown option include at line 171
MPlayer SVN-r34531 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing Road.mp3.
libavformat version 53.29.100 (internal)
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
Title: Road
Artist: nick drake
Album: nick drake
Year: 1971
Comment: 8B06AE0B
      Track: 3
       Genre: Folk
       Load subtitles in ./

==========================================================================
       Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
       Enable it at compilation.
       Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
       libavcodec version 53.54.100 (internal)
       AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 192.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio:
24000->352800)
       Selected audio codec: [ffmp3float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3
audio)

==========================================================================
       bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
       [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused
       Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=bluetooth'
       Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
       Audio: no sound
       Video: no video


       Exiting... (End of file)

the same error comes with vlc:
$ vlc Road.mp3
VLC media player 1.1.13 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x8e5c914] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc'
to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:15496): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
    bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)


* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or  ineffective)?
if I copy cp /usr/sbin/bluetoothd.ORG.4.96 back to /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
I have no problem using the bluetooth speakers.

I would like to continue using the above configuration (or similar)
to enjoy using my bluetooth speakers.
I don't want to use pulse-audio, however, at the moment I can only use
my speakers with pulse audio installed or with downgrading the bluez
binary to the one from the package version 4.96.



Thanks,
Oz




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

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bluez depends on:
ii  dbus               1.4.18-1
ii  libc6              2.13-27
ii  libcap-ng0         0.6.6-1
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.18-1
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.30.2-6
ii  libreadline6       6.2-8
ii  libudev0           175-3.1
ii  libusb-0.1-4       2:0.1.12-20
ii  lsb-base           3.2-28.1
ii  module-init-tools  3.16-1
ii  python-dbus        0.84.0-3
ii  python-gobject     3.1.0-2
ii  udev               175-3.1

bluez recommends no packages.

bluez suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf changed:
[General]
[Headset]
HFP=true
MaxConnected=1
FastConnectable=false
Enable=Socket


-- no debconf information
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