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[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bluez is currently being refactored, and as part of that is dropping the 
socket IPC mechanism that the bluez-alsa plugin uses.

In addition; when enabling the socket API explicitly - which we 
currently do in a distro patch - that causes the bluez d-bus API not to 
work correctly with PulseAudio 2.99. This is IMO a bug in bluez, but 
according to Luiz, using the d-bus API with the socket API is not 
supported. And, they've already "moved on" and dropped the socket code 
from their git repo.

PulseAudio 2.1 however works with both the socket and the d-bus APIs of 
bluez.

So, my suggestion is that we
 * drop the bluez-alsa binary package
 * drop the patch that enables the socket API
 * once that is done, continue the work to get PulseAudio 2.99/3.0 into 
Raring.

Any objections?

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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