[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#659897: bluez: Bluetooth A2DP only does not work with Pulseaudio

[Pablo Vanwoerkom]

Package: bluez
Version: 4.66-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,
Note: This is regarding bluez unstable(4.98-2).

I could not get pulseaudio to play nice with A2DP bluetooth. It didn't always
show up on list of Hardware for pulseaudio and when it did, it would only work
with the HSP profile. If I selected A2DP, it would be removed from the output
choices and when I ran a test on speakers, the pulseaudio settings window would
crash.

I looked at various forums, but none of their issues really matched mine. In
this forum post, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/327284,
people talked about backporting bluez, which prompted me to downgrade bluez to
testing(4.66-3) rather than unstable(4.98-2).

After downgrading bluez and reconnecting my A2DP device, pulseaudio again works
as expected and I'm getting stereo on my headphones. Unfortunately, I do  not
know more than that. Note I'm running pulseaudio 1.1-2.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bluez depends on:
ii  dbus               1.4.18-1
ii  libbluetooth3      4.98-2
ii  libc6              2.13-26
ii  libcap-ng0         0.6.6-1
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.18-1
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.30.2-6
ii  libnl1             1.1-7
ii  libusb-0.1-4       2:0.1.12-20
ii  lsb-base           3.2-28.1
ii  module-init-tools  3.16-1
ii  udev               175-3

bluez recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bluez suggests:
ii  python-dbus     0.84.0-3
ii  python-gobject  3.1.0-2

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