[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#746078: RT News - New member, freeze reminder and last Squeeze release

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at nigauri.org
Mon Jul 7 23:19:38 UTC 2014


Hi, Christopher.

Thanks for your comment.

2014-07-08 0:24 GMT+09:00 Christopher Schramm <debian at cschramm.eu>:
> Hey,
>
> just go for it and push BlueZ 5 to unstable, Nobuhiro. I don't want to be
> the one taking the blame. ;)

OK, thanks.

>
> I'll prepare a development snapshot of blueman next week (currently on
> holiday). It has at least any BlueZ 5 support, but is currently buggy and
> unfinished. Getting it to testing should probably provoke some feedback that
> could speed up development a little bit.

I do not think that it is removed from unstable to blueman. I think we
better to proceed with the work of bluez5 little gradually.

>
> Cheers
>

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

>
> On 7. Juli 2014 00:46:47 MESZ, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu at nigauri.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Andreas.
>>
>> I can upload bluez5 to unstable, immediately.
>> However, blueman does not work properly yet as you wrote it (which is
>> partially supported).
>> And I think that bluez4 also maintain at the same time to support the
>> blueman is not good thing too.
>> In the worst case, blueman may be deleted from the next release.
>>
>> Christopher, do you have any comment about this as blueman maintainer?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Nobuhiro
>>
>> 2014-07-05 22:12 GMT+09:00 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>:
>>>
>>>  Hello Nobuhiro Iwamatsu!
>>>
>>>  I'd like to ask what the status is on getting bluez5 into
>>>  unstable?
>>>
>>>  This part of the recent release-team announcement makes
>>>  me feel pretty stressed:
>>>
>>>  On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>  Freeze reminder <FREEZE>
>>>>  ========================
>>>>
>>>>  We are quickly approaching the freeze, which is about ~4 months away!
>>>>
>>>>    * In two months (5th of Sep), we will close down for transitions!
>>>
>>>  [...]
>>>
>>>  I'm not alone in thinking that releasing Jessie with a Gnome that
>>>  has bluetooth support disable is not ok to release.
>>>
>>>  We really need to start this soon to be able to get everything updated
>>>  before the freeze deadlines!
>>>
>>>  If blueman is not ready, then so be it.... not the end of the world.
>>>  It has no reverse dependencies, so I really don't think it should be
>>>  considered a blocker.
>>>  We lose much more if we don't get bluez5 into Jessie then we do
>>>  if we keep bluez4 for the sake of blueman.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>  Andreas Henriksson
>>
>>
>>
>



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