Serious problems?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 8:46 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720)
In reply to: Serious problems? by rakoenig
Parent article: Debian stable updates released

Wheezy to Jessie marks the transition between bluez 4 and 5 (a non-backwards compatible upgrade). Many things went wrong there, most of all not Debian related.

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Serious problems?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 9:55 UTC (Thu) by rakoenig (subscriber, #29855) [Link] (1 responses)

Not Debian related? Then who decided to introduce an incompatible update without considering that the other parts may need to be fixed as well?

Sorry from a users perspective the system is broken and its of no help to know that we can blame it on the new version of bluez.

Serious problems?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 11:00 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

One upstream switches to incompatible bluez 5 series, one upstream stays with bluez 4 series (whether because upstream upstream is dead, doesn't have the manpower or objects to the new version).
If both version can't be used at the same time, yes someone has to make the choice, and I sure don't envy the "one" who does.
Note that the switch to bluez 5 took a _long_ time precisely because reverse dependencies took a long time. i think Gnome was one of the first and it being the default desktop on Debian, it probably legitimately took a big weight in the mentioned choice (disclaimer: I do not use gnome).