Re: Discussion about bug #615504

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:56 -0300, Leandro de Oliveira wrote: > I thought not having a versionless symlink was a bug, but it seems to > be an explicit decision, if that is the case, then java apps using > bluetooth will always need the user to install libbluetooth-dev > instead of being able to wor

Re: Discussion about bug #615504

2010-08-17 Thread Leandro de Oliveira
Bluecove is a java library and is platform-independent. It uses bluez in linux. But the instalation of bluez on ubuntu doesn't provide a versionless symlink that is necessary for bluecove to work without user intervention. Bluecove links against a versionless library to be able to use the same buil

Re: Discussion about bug #615504

2010-08-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Leandro, Leandro de Oliveira [2010-08-16 15:29 -0300]: > The main issue is that a symlink named libbluetooth.so is required for > bluecove to work without user intervention. This sounds like a build system bug of bluecove. Library packages must not install a versionless libfoo.so symlink. T

Discussion about bug #615504

2010-08-16 Thread Leandro de Oliveira
Hi, I've filed a question that was transformed into a bug was redirected for discussion in some mailing list. I'm guessing this is the right one. Here is a direct link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/615504 The main issue is that a symlink named libbluetooth.so is required for bluecove to