Re: [Bluez-devel] Bug#385857: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385857: please upgrade to bluez-utils and bluez-libs 3.4

Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-05T21:08:31Z

Hi Stefan,

> > Let me put it this way. The 3.0 announcement came with a clear warning
> > that the PIN helper is dead and we now need a default passkey agent for
> > every desktop. It was one reason why I jumped to next major number. I
> > don't do this without a serious reason. I provided an example of a
> > passkey agent and the Maemo guys implemented a passkey agent for their
> > platform, but nobody else seemed to care.
>
> In the KDE case, i think that the kdebluetooth code is pretty much without
> an active maintainer. But i have a promising new talent at hand that will
> start fixing and bring it up to date :-)

sounds great. Please tell him that he should use the BlueZ D-Bus API
only. So a linking against libbluetooth is not an option anymore. This
will be the way we will go for the GNOME stuff, too.

Since I will travel tomorrow to Nuremberg for the Linux-Kongress, you
might wanna send him to my talk ;)