[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#537671: bluez: No documentation for substitutes for deprecated programs dund, etc.

[Bill Wohler]

Package: bluez
Version: 4.42-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi Filippo,

/usr/share/doc/bluez/README.Debian says:

    Legacy daemons
    --------------

    The bluez-compat package includes old legacy daemons such as dund,
    pand and hidd for enabling dial-up, ethernet networking and input
    devices over bluetooth.

Elsewhere I read that these would be going away.

It would be very helpful to document how we can change our existing
configurations to use bluetoothd.

For example, I had the following in /etc/default/bluetooth (now in
rc.local):

    DUND_OPTIONS="--listen --persist --auth call treo"

After an hour of reading docs (which don't exist in the case of
main.conf) and Googling, I still have no clue how to use bluetoothd to
set up a connection with my Treo. Perhaps you can help us in the
transition by documenting it in README.Debian.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (600, 'stable'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez depends on:
ii  dbus                      1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth3             4.42-2         Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.6-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnl1                    1.1-2          library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libusb-0.1-4              2:0.1.12-13    userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  makedev                   2.3.1-88       creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools         3.4-1          tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      0.125-7+lenny1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bluez suggests:
ii  python-dbus                   0.82.4-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gobject                2.14.2-2   Python bindings for the GObject li

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