[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#741139: bluez: Bluez version isn't the one the PulseAudio package currently supports. It expects Bluez5.

[Jefry Lagrange]

Package: bluez
Version: 4.101-4.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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I recently upgraded my system to the lastest debian sid. My bluetooth headset
stopped working. I could connect to the headset using the bluetooth utilities,
but pulseaudio wouldn't recognize it as an audio device.

I found that pulseaudio was throwing this error:
E: [pulseaudio] bluetooth-util.c: org.bluez.HandsfreeGateway.GetProperties()
failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetProperties" with
signature "" on interface "org.bluez.HandsfreeGateway" doesn't exist

It appears to me that it is making a call and not finding the appropiate bluez
api. I searched on the pulseaudio website and in the changelog of the version
4, which is the one that is currently in sid, it says the following:

"There's already been a large amount of work happening in the 'next' branch
(which will be merged into master shortly). The highlight of these changes is
support for BlueZ 5. "

My guess is that that branch has already been merged to master and the current
pulseaudio version in debian sid expects bluez 5 and not bluez 4.

I am filling this report so that the bluez package will hopefully be updated to
version 5.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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                 1.8.0-2
ii  init-system-helpers  1.18
ii  kmod                 16-2
ii  libc6                2.18-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.38.2-5
ii  libreadline6         6.3-1
ii  libudev1             204-7
ii  libusb-0.1-4         2:0.1.12-23.3
ii  lsb-base             4.1+Debian12
ii  python-dbus          1.2.0-2+b2
ii  python-gi            3.10.2-2+b1
ii  udev                 204-7

bluez recommends no packages.

bluez suggests no packages.

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


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