Upgrade gnome-bluetooth to drop libhal dependency

[Javier Jardón]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

Hal is deprecated, see http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal

gnome-bluetooth from git doesn't depend on hal, so libhal1 dependency is not necessary

You can check the configure.ac file in the git repo: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-bluetooth/tree/configure.ac

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 25 04:24:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.27.8-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.26-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic i686

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The current version does, though:

$ find -name '*.c' | xargs grep -i 'hal' |egrep -v 'marshal|half'
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c:#include <hal/libhal.h>
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: LibHalContext *halctx;
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: message = dbus_message_new_method_call ("org.freedesktop.Hal",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: message = dbus_message_new_method_call("org.freedesktop.Hal",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: type = libhal_device_get_property_string (priv->halctx,
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: message = dbus_message_new_method_call ("org.freedesktop.Hal",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch",
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: priv->halctx = libhal_ctx_new();
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: if (priv->halctx == NULL) {
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: if (libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection(priv->halctx, priv->connection) == FALSE) {
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: libhal_ctx_free(priv->halctx);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: priv->halctx = NULL;
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: if (libhal_ctx_init(priv->halctx, NULL) == FALSE) {
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: g_printerr("Couldn't init HAL context\n");
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: libhal_ctx_free(priv->halctx);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: priv->halctx = NULL;
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: list = libhal_find_device_by_capability(priv->halctx, "killswitch", &num, NULL);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: libhal_free_string_array (list);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: if (priv->halctx != NULL) {
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: libhal_ctx_shutdown(priv->halctx, NULL);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: libhal_ctx_free(priv->halctx);
./lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c: priv->halctx = NULL;

But of course this needs to be rewritten to use udev at some point.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Apparently this was fixed upstream recently:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-bluetooth/commit/?id=822c0ba3d02183cbac571dcc01f1b234d355c851

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

yeah it is in the release 2.27.9 which was released few weeks ago already, but not packaged :)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

should be fixed in latest package in karmic.