[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Bluez 5

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> I would like to push Bluez 5 to the repos, and rename Bluez 4 to
> 'bluez4'. Some things still require Bluez 4, and the two can not be
> installed together, so this is how I propose to do it.
>
> We will have the following packages:
>
> bluez4: the bluetooth daemon, providing the old dbus interface (a
> pared down version of our current 'bluez' package)
> bluez: the bluetooth daemon, providing the new dbus interface (not
> backwards compatible)
> bluez-libs: the libraries split off from the bluez package (backwards
> compatible)
> bluez-utils: the (development and testing) tools split off from the
> bluez package (backwards compatible)
>
> All packages currently depending on 'bluez' will have to be rebuilt to
> depend on 'bluez-libs' (most packages), 'bluez4' (at least
> libbluedevil) or 'bluez' (if anything has support for this). Packages
> that simply makedepend do not need to be rebuilt, just change the
> dependency in SVN (there is no soname bump).


I put bluez/bluez4 in [staging] so we can move ahead with this.

-t