Comment 1 for bug 89758

I think that the passkey-agent is not necessary to keep running even when the bluetooth service is restarted. But I'd like to vote for the debian way to start the passkey-agent.

The ubuntu way:
The passkey agent is started via autostart in this file "/usr/share/autostart/ kbluepin.autostart.desktop"
The disadvantage is:
If bluetooth is stopped or restarted passkey agent gets disconnected and can not be restarted if the user does not know the above mentioned command.

The debian way:
/usr/bin/kbluetoothd is renamed to /usr/bin/kbluetoothd.real
/usr/bin/kbluetoothd is a shell script which first starts passkey-agent and then /usr/bin/kbluetoothd.real.

The advantage for the user: If the passkey-agent gets killed for whatever reason, just restart kbluetoothd and you are set. Most people are restarting a non-cooperative program as a reflex and it will work again.

On the other hand since the passkey-agent line is just a "hack" needed for kbluepin/kbluetoothd with the debian script the workaround is contained only in this file.