Bluez packages in FC6

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Sep 28 20:40:33 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 21:23 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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...?

Sorry, there's a feature freeze for a reason.  We can't just keep
ignoring it and shoving stuff in at the last minute.  Doing the swap
later in an update is _far_ preferable as you can push it to -testing
and let people test it out for a week or two prior to pushing to final
-updates.

Jeremy




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