[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#1010668: ofono: According documentation both methods org.ofono.Manager.GetModems and org.ofono.HandsfreeAudioManager.GetCards should return with signature array{object, dict}.

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Package: ofono
Version: 1.31-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
     I was trying to get list of modems and cards via d-bus when a modem and card are avialable
     When my program initializes it should get those lists.
     However I did not get the expected results when implementing logic for array{object,dict} and came to reporting this issue.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     According to specification both methods should return array{object,dict}
     It was not possible to parse both with the same algorythm.
     Performing a query agains ofono dbus service revealed that it is actually returning different structures.
     qdbus --literal --system org.ofono / org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect
         <interface name="org.ofono.Manager"><method name="GetModems"><arg name="modems" type="a(oa{sv})" direction="out"/>
         <interface name="org.ofono.HandsfreeAudioManager"><method name="GetCards"><arg name="cards" type="a{oa{sv}}" direction="out"/

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     dbus Intorspection returns GetModems a(oa{sv}) and GetCards a{oa{sv}}. This is most likely upstream but I do not know how to report this.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     I think both should return type="a(oa{sv})"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ofono depends on:
ii  dbus                 1.12.20-2
ii  init-system-helpers  1.60
ii  libc6                2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.12.20-2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.66.8-1
ii  libudev1             247.3-7
ii  lsb-base             11.1.0

Versions of packages ofono recommends:
ii  udev  247.3-7

ofono suggests no packages.

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