Bug 301630 – Drop net-wireless/bluez-{utils,libs}

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gustavo F. Padovan 2010-01-20 14:39:30 UTC]

bluez-2 is officially deprecated and also unsupported[1]. bluez-libs-2.25 even compiles.

[1] http://www.bluez.org/download/

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2010-01-20 23:05:34 UTC]

Please, translate your comment into English.
Did you mean: "bluez-libs-2.25 doesn't even compile" ?

Anyway, as you may noticed in bug 270859, bluez is not that
well maintained in Gentoo.

[Comment 2 Gustavo F. Padovan 2010-01-20 23:12:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please, translate your comment into English.
> Did you mean: "bluez-libs-2.25 doesn't even compile" ?

Yes :-)

> 
> Anyway, as you may noticed in bug 270859, bluez is not that
> well maintained in Gentoo.
> 

[Comment 3 Denilson Sá Maia 2010-01-30 19:23:56 UTC]

There are versions 2.x and 3.x of bluez-libs and bluez-utils available at portage, but they block bluez-4.x. All of them are currently stable.

And, yeah, I wish bluetooth was more well-maintained in Gentoo... :-/

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-04-08 21:13:50 UTC]

How about removing also bluez 3.x while at it?  Leaving only bluez 4.x and compatible pkgs in tree.  It's about time, imho.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2010-05-08 09:44:02 UTC]

I will try to drop net-wireless/bluez-utils and net-wireless/bluez-libs when I am able to

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-06-11 12:44:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I will try to drop net-wireless/bluez-utils and net-wireless/bluez-libs when I
> am able to
> 

FTR. They can be masked now, nothing depends on bluez-libs or bluez-utils.

[Comment 7 Robert J. Brown 2010-07-05 18:43:52 UTC]

How about some documentation to go with that code?  I can't switch to the new version necause it took literally weeks to get the old versaion configured so that it would work half-way acceptably.  There are no docs to tell me how to configure the new version, so it is worthless to me.  I am forced to run masked net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36 instaed, at least until somebody who knows writes some documentation on how to configure the new stuff.

[Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-07-05 18:46:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> How about some documentation to go with that code?  I can't switch to the new
> version necause it took literally weeks to get the old versaion configured so
> that it would work half-way acceptably.  There are no docs to tell me how to
> configure the new version, so it is worthless to me.  I am forced to run masked
> net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36 instaed, at least until somebody who knows writes
> some documentation on how to configure the new stuff.
> 

Bug 286826.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2010-07-13 12:15:13 UTC]

Dropped