[gnome-bluetooth] undefined symbol: hci_remote_name

Edd Dumbill edd at usefulinc.com
Thu Jan 20 13:30:45 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:59 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Edd,
> 
> > > the bluez-libs-2.14 deprecate some functions and hci_remote_name()
> > > should be replaced by hci_read_remote_name().
> > 
> > Whoa, the API changed in a backward incompatible manner and you didn't
> > bump the SONAME?
> 
> actually I thought that these deprecated functions where nowhere in use,
> but I was wrong as it seems. And because of this I saw no reason to bump
> the SONAME. Should I re-introduce them in the next release or can you
> simply fix the libbtctl.

It would be best if you could reintroduce them.  I may not be the only
person using those APIs, as I think I lifted the code from a previous
version of hcitool.

thanks

-- Edd




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