Bluez packages in FC6

[Peter Robinson]

> A while ago, I updated bluez-libs to the new 3.x version, since it had a
> new soname and I wanted to make sure anything using it got rebuilt
> against the new version.
>
> The plan was to update bluez-utils and replace the horrid bluez-pin
> package with the shiny new bluez-gnome, but other things (mostly OLPC
> hardware bringup) have been taking priority.
>
> I've now found the time to do the bluez stuff, and have set it up for
> testing -- I appreciate that it's fairly late to be doing this, but I'd
> like to do the minor update of bluez-libs to 3.6, along with the update
> of bluez-utils from its ancient 2.25 version to 3.6. That will require
> building bluez-gnome in place of bluez-pin, too.
>
> Yes, it's far later than I'd like to be doing this, but the alternative
> is that we end up swapping them out _later_ in an erratum, which is
> _far_ more likely to be problematic. I've can make some time now to do a
> proper test of bluez stuff in advance of the fc6 release, and in fact I
> have a strong suspicion that after what I've done today, the new
> packages have probably had _more_ testing than the old ones in rawhide.
> Hands up those who've actually done any testing of bluetooth stuff in
> rawhide...?
>
> I've got packages just about ready to go; I'm still working on testing
> the stuff which is _known_ to be broken in rawhide but which shouldn't
> be broken with the new packages. I'd like to put them into FC6.

As for testing bluetooth on devel? Me..... works great with my BT 2
dongle and the one built into my laptop. But I would love the newer
stuff. It also has other nice stuff like dbus integration. So I can
test it too. Once its in can the gnokii in extras-devel be pinged so
its rebuilt too?

Pete