On Son, 2013-08-25 at 06:39 -0600, Jeffrey Cheung wrote:
Hi Raymond and Dominique,
Actually we have fate https://fate.novell.com/315090 Upgrade to Bluez5.
However, the status is that it was not ready for M4 of openSUSE 13.1 and thus no approve to move on.
In the same time, since SLE12 is far FCS date than openSUSE 13.1, Al Cho who is the main developer in SUSE will handle for SLE12 bluez5 update.
Jeffrey,
looking at where GNOME 3.10 is heading, we discuss as much as there is
need for: but in the end, GNOME 3.10 will depend on BlueZ5;
As such, it's much better for us to switch sooner than later; and
Raymond is doing the best job there is to get KDE in line with these
requirements as well.
So, I would really recommend that we bite the bullet and push BlueZ5 to
Factory ASAP!
The good thing: we won't be alone with this: Fedora 20 will have the
same setup. So we can surely profit from each other there.
If we stay with Bluez4, then we have to be aware that for GNOME this
might or might not work; surely, upstream support will not be given in
this case. If you're planning to such tricks for SLE, I urge you to
rethink such a plan.
Again, for openSUSE: BlueZ5 is mainly ready, the 'legacy API' needs to
be enabled (which is done by Seife) and the stuff relying on the DBUS
interface needs to be made aware of the new interface (not backwards
compatible). It's a one-time pain we have to take now; or we split the
pain over two releases.
Cheers,
Dominique
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger