[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#498056: Can not control input_service via dbus

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > that explains the bug, unless I'm missing something of course :)
> 
> it does indeed, but then I wonder why this functionality is present in
> an openembedded based image for the FreeRunner that runs (supposedly)
> bluez-utils 3.23-r2, which is older than what’s in Debian, and I can not
> find any patches regarding this...
> 
> And indeed, looking at:
> http://shr.bearstech.com/sources/bluez-utils-3.23.tar.gz
> The above code lines are filled with some functionality!
> 
> So looking in the changelog, I see:
> ver 3.32:
> 	[..]
>         Remove HAL support helpers.
>         Remove inotify support.
>         Remove service daemon activation handling.
>         Remove uneeded D-Bus API extension.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have any idea why this was removed? Is there some
> replacement functionality?

Judging from the code above my first guess (offhand) is because services migrated
from external processes to plugins (loaded via g_module_load).

Unfortunately I'm unaware of any replacement (though I have not checked the new
4.x code)

filippo
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