FYI: F20 Feature: Migrate to Bluez5

[Than Ngo]

Am Freitag, 21. Juni 2013, 17:16:09 schrieben Sie:
> 2013-05-06 11:13, Peter Robinson skrev:
> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Heya,
> >> 
> >> In Fedora 20, we'll be using BlueZ 5.x to manage Bluetooth devices.
> >> 
> >> Bluez5 uses a D-Bus API that's not compatible with Bluez4[1] and as
> >> such, management applications and a number of libraries and daemons will
> >> need to be ported.
> >> 
> >> For GNOME 3.10 (due September 2013), Gustavo Padovan and I are going to
> >> be porting gnome-bluetooth, NetworkManager and PulseAudio to BlueZ5.
> >> Packages for BlueZ5 will be available as soon as we figure out how to
> >> integrate a few downstream features that were in the Fedora packages.
> >> 
> >> Bluez4 and Bluez5 are not parallel-installable, and incompatible, so
> >> other applications relying on Bluez4 will need to be ported by their
> >> respective maintainers.
> > 
> > Any analysis to what packages are affected, how many are yet to
> > support the new API and how hard it will be for them to be ported
> > over.
> 
> I took a look to see what the impact would be. I am not a BlueZ expert,
> so Bastien, please correct me if I am wrong somewhere.
> 
> BlueZ ships a daemon and provides two main interfaces for applications
> to use it:
> 
>  1) libbluetooth shared library
> 
>  2) org.bluez DBus API
> 
> The TL;DL version is that in my findings, the only package that still
> needs porting to bluez 5 is blueman. Others should either just continue
> working, or need new versions packaged up.
> 
> 
> Applications that use the libbluetooth shared library
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> The library ABI hasn't changed and the soname in 5.x is still the same
> as was in 4.x: libbluetooth.so.3, so the impact should be minimal.
> Everything should be able to continue working without needing even a
> simple rebuild.
> 
> Affected packages:
> 
> $ repoquery -q --whatrequires bluez-libs -s | sort | uniq
> amora-1.1-10.fc19.src.rpm
> anyremote-6.3.1-1.fc20.src.rpm
> asterisk-11.4.0-2.fc20.src.rpm
> bluecove-2.1.1-0.5.20101024snap63.fc19.src.rpm
> blueman-1.23-6.fc19.src.rpm
> bluemodem-0.7-9.fc19.src.rpm
> bluez-4.101-6.fc19.src.rpm
> bluez-hcidump-2.5-2.fc19.src.rpm
> btkbdd-1.3-2.fc19.src.rpm
> cwiid-0.6.00-21.20100505gitfadf11e.fc19.src.rpm
> dolphin-emu-3.0-12.fc19.src.rpm
> fawkes-0.5.0-7.fc20.src.rpm
> foxtrotgps-1.1.1-5.fc19.src.rpm
> gammu-1.26.1-10.fc19.src.rpm
> gnokii-0.6.31-6.fc20.src.rpm
> gnome-phone-manager-0.68-10.fc19.src.rpm
> gpsd-3.9-1.fc20.src.rpm
> gvfs-1.17.2-1.fc20.src.rpm
> gypsy-0.9-1.fc20.src.rpm
> kismet-0.0.2013.03.R1-1.fc20.src.rpm
> libbtctl-0.11.1-13.fc20.src.rpm
> libopensync-plugin-irmc-0.22-6.fc19.src.rpm
> nxtrc-2.3-7.fc19.src.rpm
> obexd-0.46-5.fc20.src.rpm
> obex-data-server-0.4.6-5.fc19.src.rpm
> obexfs-0.12-6.fc19.src.rpm
> obexftp-0.23-13.fc20.src.rpm
> openobex-1.5-8.fc19.src.rpm
> pilot-link-0.12.5-16.fc20.src.rpm
> pulseaudio-4.0-1.fc20.src.rpm
> pybluez-0.18-6.fc19.src.rpm
> qemu-1.5.0-9.fc20.src.rpm
> syncevolution-1.3.99.3-2.fc20.src.rpm
> vfrnav-20130510-1.fc20.src.rpm
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