[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#746078: Bug#746078: Please provide bluez 5 in unstable

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

Sorry, reply was late.

2014-05-16 1:16 GMT+09:00 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx at debian.org>:
> Dear Bluetooth maintainers,
>
> I would like to emphasize Sjoerd's point:
>
> Le dimanche, 27 avril 2014, 15.07:45 Sjoerd Simons a écrit :
>> For jessie it would be good to at least have bluez 5 be available if
>> not be used as the default for Debian. Which obviously as a first
>> step need to have bluez 5 transition to unstable.
>
> For what is worth, as I mentioned on debian-devel [0], KDE can be made
> ready for Bluez5 with two straightforward uploads of new upstream
> versions of {lib,}bluedevil. I plan to upload these in coordination with
> their respective maintainers to experimental in the next days.

Thanks for upload!

>
> [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00076.html
>
>> Given it's a pretty massive transition (involving e.g. all the
>> desktops), the thinking at the Debian gnome sprint was it would
>> probably be best (as a temporary solution) to have both bluez 5 and
>> bluez 4 in unstable and conflicting (so only one can be installed at
>> any one time). In that way packages can transition at their own time
>> instead of requiring the whole distribution in one go.
>
> I'm rather leaning towards deprecating Bluez4 as early as possible, but
> that's really up to you to decide.

Yes,  However, adjustment with big DE is difficult.

>
>> Would it be possible to do such a strategy in a reasonable timeframe
>> so the transition and testing can happen with a good amount of time
>> left before the Jessie freeze?
>
> Having Bluez5 in Jessie would be nice, to say the least.
>

Yes, I think too. I can already upload bluez5 to unstable as bluez part.
Is bluedevil  2.0~rc1-1 working with bluez5? Can I upload bluze5 to
unstable by KDE part?
Of course, I will also ask Gnome team about this.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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