Timeline for What is the status of `bluez`, and where is the man page?
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 15:13 | answer | added | Seamus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 2:31 | answer | added | tlfong01 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 9, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackRaspi/status/1115721189765394432 | ||
| Apr 8, 2019 at 14:51 | vote | accept | Seamus | ||
| Apr 6, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | Seamus | Just to underscore the 'substandard documentation' point, enter btmgmt info at the command line & study the output for a moment. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 21:51 | answer | added | Roger Jones | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | Seamus | zcat /usr/share/doc/bluez/README.Debian.gz was somewhat helpful, but again falls well short of the mark. The github site has a lot more. I got curious about this when I learned of the btmgmt utiity, but was unable to figure how it worked (no man pg). This all counts as progress, if not an answer. Would you like to take a stab at assembling all you've presented here as an answer? | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 21:04 | comment | added | Roger Jones | According to the package contents there should be 19 man pages installed but looking at them they're pretty sparse. How about git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/README and git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc ? | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 21:01 | comment | added | Seamus | Apparently bluetoothd = bluez... who knew? The file list you linked to is a big help in getting a handle on this. Maybe it's just me, but the "bluez universe" seems to be characterized by substandard documentation. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 19:35 | comment | added | Roger Jones | Man pages should be installed at /usr/share/man with subdirectories for the sections. Try man 1 bluetoothctl or man 8 bluetoothd for example. Online, try here: manpages.debian.org/stretch/bluez/index.html | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 19:24 | comment | added | Seamus | $ man btmgmt ==> No manual entry for btmgmt. Not sure how to navigate the file list, but nothing I saw suggested existence of a man page. Also, nothing listed under docs for bluez | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 19:04 | comment | added | Roger Jones | Last bluez release was v5.50 in June 2018. From the DEB file list for 5.43-2 shipped with stretch there should be some man pages for the individual tools and for the daemon. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 18:17 | history | asked | Seamus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |