[arch-dev-public] bluez status?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Jud wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:35:25 +0200
>> Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jan de Groot schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know the status of bluez in testing at this moment.
>>>> GNOME 2.24.0 depends on the testing bluez-libs at this moment, I
>>>> would like to move both at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> I lost track of this project, as they're not my packages. Any
>>>> rebuilds pending? Any patches we need to apply?
>>>>
>>>
>>> bluez needs an update, which I have no time for. Many applications
>>> need to be patched to use the new bluez API, which I have no time
>>> for. I'd like to orphan bluez completely and let someone else take
>>> care of it, as I can't keep up with it. Anyone interested?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the interest of getting this moving and improving Arch, I will
>> gladly help someone to get Bluez moved into [core]. I have attempted to
>> update the necessary packages (attached). Also, I noticed voidnull
>> (Giovanni Scafora) has two bluez related packages in [community] and
>> might be a good person to ask questions to.
>>
>> bluez.PKGBUILD
>> bluez-firmware.PKGBUILD
>> bluez-gnome.PKGBUILD
>> bluez-hcidump.PKGBUILD
>>
>> ## Notes:
>> Thomas has limited time, some rebuilds will be necessary -
>> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-September/008251.html
>> Red Hat should have patches if needed -
>> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-September/008252.html
>>
>>
>> # List of rebuilds needed?:
>> gnokii (testing)
>> gvfs (testing)
>> libbtctl (testing)
>> obex-data-server (testing)
>> openobex (testing)
>> qemu (testing)
>> --
>> bluez-gnome-1.8 [extra] roman?
>> bluez-firmware-1.2      [community] voidnull
>> bluez-hcidump-1.42      [community] voidnull
>> obexd-0.5                       AUR
>> --
>> Needed?
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/libgdbus-0.2.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>> # Redundant:
>> bluez-libs
>> bluez-utils
>>
>
> Is anyone going to attempt this rebuild?  This is holding up gnome which is
> holding up python which means I can't slack of at work doing rebuilds...  I
> will do these if necessary but I have no way of testing any of these
> packages so it would be better if someone else did this.

I would say just do it. I don't think any of us regularly use bluetooth.