[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#552185: Bug#552185: [gnome-bluetooth] read/write access to the /dev/rfkill device is required

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:47:07PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:32:42 +0200
> Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > The ubuntu package provides a udev rule in
> > 61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules which deals with this issue. However,
> > I really doubt that gnome-bluetooth is the right package to provide
> > such a udev rule. Please cross-check with the udev maintainer.
> > Anyway, please enable rfkill for users in a reasonable way. ;)
> 
> Hi, I'm in touch with the Ubuntu's maintainer, I'm CCing him here so we
> can hear his rationale about having such a udev rule, so maybe we can
> adopt it as well if it fits fine with our needs.

the udev rule is a temporary hack, which we added to gnome-bluetooth
to get things going. In the end it should be wrapped by bluez with
policykit and al ... and hence we didnt want to put that in udev or
some other package ...

 - Alexander