Bug 505474

Summary:	media-sound/pulseaudio-5 USE=bluetooth should depend on >=net-wireless/bluez-4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	hephooey
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lukas.schneiderbauer, sound
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description hephooey 2014-03-23 18:04:47 UTC

There is no HSP profile support in Pulseaudio 5/Bluez 5 combination. In order to use bluetooth headset for telepathy/skype, Bluez 4 must be used. Pulseaudio 5 can be built with Bluez 4. However the current ebuild dictates Bluez 5 when the bluetooth use flag is enable. It would be useful in the near future to have an bluez4 use flag or something similar to enable build with bluez4

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-03-24 21:48:27 UTC

bluez-4 support doesn't make much sense as it's going to be removed soon (because cannot be installed in parallel with bluez-5 and it's obsolete and completely unmaintained since first 5.x version was released by upstream)

Comment 2 Lukas Schneiderbauer 2014-03-30 23:16:26 UTC

Pardon my ignorance but this sounds to me that by removing bluez-4 you are basically removing the ability to use a bluetooth-microphone on gentoo...?

I get your point that you would like it to go away since it's unmaintained but don't you think the lack of this feature weighs a lot more than keeping unmaintained software in the tree?

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-04-27 08:04:13 UTC

+*pulseaudio-5.0-r1 (27 Apr 2014)
+
+  27 Apr 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +pulseaudio-5.0-r1.ebuild:
+  Support bluez-4 too (#505474, #506744, 506024)
+