[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] bluez5: new package for v5.3

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 10:07:13 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:24:30AM -0700, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi Martin,

Hi Ross,

> On 12 March 2013 00:00, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And is that correct? I guess some files on target will conflict between
> > bluez4 and bluez5, so how is user/distro supposed to upgrade from 4 to
> > 5?
> 
> You can't just upgrade from bluez4 to bluez5 like you'd upgrade from
> glib 2.10 to glib 2.12 - the API was totally rewritten and the reason
> that we're maintaining both is because removing bluez4 would mean
> removing bluetooth support is most of the integration points (connman
> being the notable exception).
> 
> A distro upgrades from 4 to 5 when they've made the explicit decision
> to do so, and changes all of their dependencies to reflect this.

That would work with bluez_5.3 with negative D_P too, wouldn't it?

Now they need to refine RREPLACES/RCONFLICTS/RPROVIDES combo in distro
config too when they do explicit decision to change bluez version.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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