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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 21, 2015 14:17, "Tony Espy" <espy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/20/2015 05:20 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been taking care of a backlog of packages that have been removed in
>> Debian but not removed in Ubuntu.  One of the packages that's shown up on
>> the list as having reverse-dependencies in Ubuntu is obexd, whose
packages
>> (obexd-client and obexd-server) don't merely have reverse-dependencies,
they
>> have the ubuntu-touch metapackage as a reverse-dependency.
>>
>> According to the Debian bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/772094), these
>> packages are obsolete and superseded by bluez-obexd.  bluez-obexd is
>> available in Ubuntu, and does show itself as replacing obexd-client and
>> obexd-server.  Should the touch seed be changed to use bluez-obexd in
place
>> of obexd-{client,server} going forward from wily?  Do we have test cases
for
>> obex support on the phone?

We do, the main use case here is contact sync with cars and so on, which
uses obex.

The API from the obex provided by bluez is quite different, so please only
drop this once we migrate completely to bluez5.

> OBEX currently is *not* supported on the phone, so there shouldn't be any
test cases.
>
> +1 from me on the seed change as well.

It is, you can even transfer files :) We just don't have an interface for
it.

Cheers,
Ricardo

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