[arch-general] The future of bluetooth in ArchLinux
As you might now, the bluetooth packages in Arch are not activelly maintained so the main developers were looking for help. I've expressed my readiness to help in any way I can, but I'd also like suggestions and help from other people here. So, I've created a git repository for bluetooth related PKGBUILDs http://damjan.softver.org.mk:8080/git/arch-bluetooth.git you can browse that repo to see the files there. The PKGBUILDs need a bit of updateing with the dependancies and descriptions IMHO. The dependencies are: * bluez is the base package it depends on dbus-core and glib * openobex * bluez-obexd is a a dbus service that implements obex push server and client and also ObexFTP afaik.. as a dbus service it can't be used on its own, but is used by some other application which brings us to... * bluez-gnome is a gnome applet, and some other gnome tools that with the help of obexd imlement all the interesting stuff you can do with bluetooth (pairing, sending files (object push), browseing for devices) All of the above programs and libraries are maintained by the Bluez project (www.bluez.org). Some additional packages are bluez-hcidump used for debuging (depends on bluez) and bluez-firmware needed for same rare devices (and really doesn't depend on anything). Next what I have there are python-pybluez and python-lightblue (depends on the publuez and openobex) which are two python libraries for working with bluetooth.. the second offering some higher level functionality. Finally there's kdebluetooth which although compiles fine with bluez-4.21 I don't think it actually works? The help I'd like would be: to define a TODO for bluetooth, helping with finding some patches that might be needed and any testing would be helpfull. I currently don't use Gnome or even KDE4 much (I use some KDE4 apps in awesome). I also can't build x86_64 yet. -- damjan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
As you might now, the bluetooth packages in Arch are not activelly maintained so the main developers were looking for help. I've expressed my readiness to help in any way I can, but I'd also like suggestions and help from other people here.
Just an FYI - we're bringing on a maintainer to handle the bluetooth packages. If you're real gung-ho about it, perhaps you guys could collaborate :)
As you might now, the bluetooth packages in Arch are not activelly maintained so the main developers were looking for help. I've expressed my readiness to help in any way I can, but I'd also like suggestions and help from other people here.
Just an FYI - we're bringing on a maintainer to handle the bluetooth packages. If you're real gung-ho about it, perhaps you guys could collaborate :)
That's a releif :) -- damjan
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Aaron Griffin
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Damjan Georgievski