[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#757731: [bluez] Bluez5 does no longer support the Headset/Handsfree (HSP/HFP) profiles

Jens Stomber jens.stomber at gmx.de
Sun Aug 10 21:33:02 UTC 2014


Package: bluez
Version: 5.21-2
Severity: important

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Since bluez 5.21.-2 entered testing bluedevil does no longer offer to switch a 
bluetooth headset to Headset/Handsfree (HSP/HFP) profiles on my system. Reason 
is that Bluez5 dropped support for it:

http://www.bluez.org/release-of-bluez-5-0/
"Remove internal support for telephony (HFP and HSP) profiles. They should be 
implemented using the new Profile interface preferably by the telephony 
subsystem of choice (e.g. oFono which already supports this)"

Right now oFono seems not to deliver the missing functionalities.

As a result the microphones of bluetooth headsets are no longer working in 
debian testing/unstable.

My workaround is to downgrade to bluez 4.101-4.1 and bluedevil 1.3.1-1 using 
debian snapshots:
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140713T221757Z/


regards

Jens

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.14-2-amd64

Debian Release: jessie/sid
  990 testing         security.debian.org 
  990 testing         ftp.de.debian.org 
  980 testing         debian.ids-services.de 
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org 
  490 unstable        debian.ids-services.de 
  480 unstable        liquorix.net 
  400 unstable        deb.i2p2.no 
  300 testing         snapshot.debian.org 
  200 experimental    ftp.de.debian.org 
  190 experimental    debian.ids-services.de 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                     (Version) | Installed
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libc6                       (>= 2.15) | 2.19-7
libdbus-1-3                (>= 1.1.1) | 1.8.6-1
libglib2.0-0              (>= 2.28.0) | 2.40.0-3
libreadline6                 (>= 6.0) | 6.3-6
libudev1                     (>= 183) | 208-6
libusb-0.1-4            (>= 2:0.1.12) | 2:0.1.12-24
init-system-helpers        (>= 1.18~) | 1.20
kmod                                  | 18-1
udev                       (>= 170-1) | 208-6
lsb-base                              | 4.1+Debian13
dbus                                  | 1.8.6-1
python-gi                             | 3.12.1-1+b1
python-dbus                           | 1.2.0-2+b3


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