Why Bluez version < 4?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 04.01.2009, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Erland Lewin:
> I started looking into Bluetooth under FSO on the Freerunner, and saw
> that the distro uses the bluetooth stack version Bluez-3.32 or 3.33 or
> something like that. 
> 
> What is the reason for not migrating to a more recent version of
> Bluez? The latest version is 4.25.
> 
> If I start working on Bluetooth, I'd rather work on the latest API,
> with the most recent support & bug fixes and not have to port my work
> at a later time.
> 
> What parts of the existing Framework would be affected by a change of
> the Bluetooth API?

as far as I know, the latest bluez version has dropped some features,
e.g. turning the hidd plugin on and off via dbus, which is useful for
things like remoko.

To read more about this, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498056

Greetings,
Joachim

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