Request for Packaging Blueman for Fedora

[Rishikesh Sharma]

Hi All,

I request fedora packager to create Blueman rpm for Fedora. Its a nice
bluetooth manager for Linux. Ubuntu has already included in thier
respository. It allows any common user to connect any bluetooth device with
ease. It also allow you to connect  gprs internet connection from mobile
without having to know commands.

Regards,
Rishikesh Sharma
Fedora Ambassador
Imphal, Manipur.

[Debarshi Ray]

> I request fedora packager to create Blueman rpm for Fedora. Its a nice
> bluetooth manager for Linux. Ubuntu has already included in thier
> respository.

I could have packaged it, but why don't you do it yourself?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi

[Rakesh Pandit]

2009/1/10 Debarshi Ray :
> > I request fedora packager to create Blueman rpm for Fedora. Its a nice
> > bluetooth manager for Linux. Ubuntu has already included in thier
> > respository.
>
> I could have packaged it, but why don't you do it yourself?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Or if you are not interested right now, add to wish list at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList

[sankarshan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Rakesh Pandit  wrote:
> 2009/1/10 Debarshi Ray :
> > > I request fedora packager to create Blueman rpm for Fedora. Its a nice
> > > bluetooth manager for Linux. Ubuntu has already included in thier
> > > respository.
> >
> > I could have packaged it, but why don't you do it yourself?
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
>
> Or if you are not interested right now, add to wish list at:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList

Rishikesh caught up with me on IM today. So, is it possible to
hand-hold him for packaging this ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Rakesh Pandit  wrote:
> > 2009/1/10 Debarshi Ray :
> > > > I request fedora packager to create Blueman rpm for Fedora. Its a nice
> > > > bluetooth manager for Linux. Ubuntu has already included in thier
> > > > respository.
> > >
> > > I could have packaged it, but why don't you do it yourself?
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
> >
> > Or if you are not interested right now, add to wish list at:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList
>
> Rishikesh caught up with me on IM today. So, is it possible to
> hand-hold him for packaging this ?

Yeah. Come up in #fedora-india and #fedora-devel and ask questions. I am 
mether on IRC and atleast can help you get started. Remember, you don't 
have to do a perfect package to put it up for review.

Rahul

[steve]

Hi mether,

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Rishikesh caught up with me on IM today. So, is it possible to
> > hand-hold him for packaging this ?
>
> Yeah. Come up in #fedora-india and #fedora-devel and ask questions. I am 
> mether on IRC and atleast can help you get started. Remember, you don't 
> have to do a perfect package to put it up for review.

Sorry to butt in like this (and sorry also for not replying to this thread 
earlier), but i hope this mail saves some time for anyone who plans on packaging 
blueman.

I gave this a shot after i saw this mail. However since it had a dependency on 
python-distutils-extras[1] (which although not in Fedora at that time, was 
almost there), So, i decided to wait.

This package was pushed to F10 yesterday. I installed it and built blueman (so, 
technically, since all the dependencies for this package are now present in 
Fedora, it can be completely built).

However, (there was a point to this mail, you see) when i tried executing the 
built blueman, i got this:

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[steve@laptop ~]$ blueman

(blueman:5228): libglade-WARNING **: Unexpected element <requires-version> 
inside <glade-interface>.
* Initializing 'Bluetooth.manager' Class
* Initializing 'Bluetooth.services' Class
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/blueman", line 131, in <module>
     Globals.Services = services()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/blueman/Bluetooth/services.py", line 
39, in __init__
     services = Globals.Manager.ListServices()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/blueman/Bluetooth/manager.py", line 
54, in ListServices
     return self.manager.ListServices()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
     return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
     **keywords)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in 
call_blocking
     message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method 
"ListServices" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Manager" doesn't exist

[steve@laptop ~]$

------------------------------------------------

Now, it was too late last night for me to try and debug (or report to the 
developers), what was happening.

So, to summarize -- besides what is mentioned in the README as dependencies, you 
also need:
bluez-libs-devel
python-distutils-extras

...and of course this would let you create the rpm, but verify that blueman is 
useable before diving in.

discliamer: I did all of this on F10 x88_64, if F9 has a different version of 
bluez-lib, you might not see this.

regards,
- steve

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472066