FYI: F20 Feature: Migrate to Bluez5

[Peter Robinson]

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.

Peter