** Description changed: - Binary package hint: bluez-utils + BlueZ 4.x resolves two regressions that are seen in the 3.x stack on + Intrepid. - As discussed in IRC on #ubuntu-motu, BlueZ 4.x resolves regressions that are seen in the 3.x stack on Intrepid. - * Particularly, keyboards aren't able to pair in the UI. - - The combination of bluez-utils 3.36 and the btusb kernel module seems to be causing problems when pairing bluetooth keyboards. - * Broken services tab (completely gone in 4.x) - - This is fixed in bluez-gnome 0.28 or anything later. However you need to switch to a package in the 4.x series when using the bluez 4.x stack. + Regressions solved + ------- + * Keyboards aren't able to pair in the UI. + - The combination of bluez-utils 3.36 and the btusb kernel module seems to be causing problems when pairing bluetooth keyboards. Reverting to an earlier release of bluez-utils is not a good solution as a lot of bugs were fixed by coming up to 3.36. - Additionally, the bluez stack's usability is improved in the 4.x version. - * Usability - there is a pairing wizard with 4.x which is ages beyond what was in 3.x + * Broken services tab + - In the 3.x stack, the services tab is unfortunately the only way to activate new devices. + - This is fixed in bluez-gnome 0.28 or anything later. However you need to switch to a package in the 1.x series when using the Bluez 4.x stack. + + Newer features + ------ + The 4.x version brings an additional UI element, a pairing wizard. This may cause problems for documentation teams, but considering the previous UI was not intuitive, there likely hasn't been a lot of documentation on it. - Test packages will be provided in a PPA. + Testing + ------ + The entire stack that needs to be changed for this bug is available on the Bluetooth team testing PPA at http://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive . + * Builds are all verified functional for i386, amd64, lpia + * These builds have all been test installed by adding the PPA to an up to date Intrepid and doing a dist-upgrade. + * Functionality has been verified for keyboards, mice, OBEX browsing, OBEX sending, and DUN via rfcomm.
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