On Fre, 2013-08-16 at 17:51 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > Hi Dominique, > > Bastien Nocera, who's been leading the GNOME effort to switch to BlueZ 5 > is currently on vacation. I don't know all the details but I'll try to > reply with what I know.
Thanks for taking the time! > > I'll add Gustavo Padovan to CC as well if he wants to add anything. > > In Fedora, we've decided to bite the bullet and switch to BlueZ 5, as of > three days ago. This is planned for the F20 release that's due in November. There was actually a discussion only a few days ago as well for openSUSE: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-08/msg00117.html The consens was that it's a bit late in the schedule; but then, at that point, we did not have a pressing argument. > > I've personally been aware of the plan for GNOME to switch to BlueZ 5 in > 3.10 for a while. But that's maybe because I do distro packaging and > follow release notes :) > > gnome-bluetooth 3.9.3 that switched to BlueZ 5 and dropped BlueZ 4 > support was released back in June, > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2013-June/msg00095.html . Shoot... that was misinterpreted by me... 'porting' did not imply (to me) that old support is gone; so it was assumed to co-exist and know which of the two to use > Several other GNOME related modules switched to BlueZ 5 at the same > time: gnome-control-center and gnome-shell. The switch might not have > been obvious though because things kept _building_ fine. We use BlueZ > through DBus, so the new gnome-bluetooth / gnome-shell / > gnome-control-center releases would only want BlueZ 5 at _runtime_. Indeed.. breaking at linking is so much easier to spot... but that means we DO have stuff in already that relies on it. > I sent a summary report about this to fedora-devel ML yesterday, and it > covers some other DE issues as well if you are interested, > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/187738.html Will surely give it a read ! Thanks for the link. > Basically we have: > > ported: > gnome-bluetooth > gnome-shell > gnome-control-center > > ported, but no release yet: > pulseaudio (support in git, release supposed to come in September) > NetworkManager (patches currently in bugzilla) > > not getting ported for 3.10: > gnome-user-share > No idea about qemu, but it does seem to _link_ with libbluetooth as > opposed to using the DBus API. The library is in deprecated status, but > the API / ABI didn't change between BlueZ 4 and 5, so perhaps qemu can > continue working. > > Hope this helps, Thanks a lot Kalev! IT surely does help. I'll see what I can do. Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
