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[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/28/2012 06:29 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Le 2012-11-28 10:27, David Henningsson a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> That's exactly what needs to be done. Bluez has add the MediaEndpoint
> dbus stuff which should work properly (from my
> knows-nothing-of-pulseaudio point of view).

Excellent that we are on the same page here. Do you have time to do this 
(drop patch to enable socket API and drop bluez-alsa package), and 
upload into Raring any time soon?

> Last I asked Luke Yelavich about this, the MediaEnpoint API wasn't
> supported yet in the version we had in the Ubuntu archive, and that's
> the reason why I added the patch to enable the socket API explicitly.

Ok. The situation has changed now because PulseAudio 2.1 supports both APIs.

> We should let Nobuhiro Iwamatsu know about this too if the plan is to
> drop the bluez-alsa binary, since he's the maintainer in Debian and
> probably wants to drop it there as well.

Good idea. I'll send him an email.



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