Bug#723720: gnome-bluetooth: incompatble to obexd 0.48

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Thu Sep 19 08:52:00 UTC 2013


On 19/09/13 09:08, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: gnome-bluetooth
> Version: 3.8.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it is impossible to send files from the GNOME desktop to any other device via
> bluetooth when obexd-client >= 0.48 is installed. Unfortunately, that is the
> version currently in testing and unstable. Thw following error message appears:
> "The name org.openobex.client was not provided by any .service files"
> 
> According to upstream in  [1,2] this has been "fixed" by porting gnome-
> bluetooth to Bluez 5 which has merged obexd. I am not sure if upstream has ever
> been ported to the obexd 0.48 API. so we have to either revert to obexd 0.46 in
> Debian or backport the Bluez 5 API changes. :/

Getting bluez 5 in sid/testing is going to be some work as there is many stuff
to port / coordinate but in the end that is the way forward. We'll be packaging
G3.10 very soon which is ported to BlueZ 5.

Emilio



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