Bug#836402: italc: please don't run dbus-launch

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sat Sep 3 16:42:19 UTC 2016


On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 at 18:31:01 +0200, Tobias Doerffel wrote:
> > italc seems to contain a copy of x11vnc, with the same bug that I
> > reported there: if I'm reading ica/x11/x11vnc/ssltools.h correctly,
> > x11vnc currently runs `dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session`
> > if both dbus-launch and gnome-session are found.
> 
> as far as I can see dbus-launch is only used for creating new displays
> on-demand, a feature which is not used by iTALC Client Application
> (which integrates many features from x11vnc). The bug therefore isn't
> relevant for iTALC.

If you're confident that the shell-code in ica/x11/x11vnc/ssltools.h
isn't actually run by any of the binary packages produced by italc,
feel free to close the bug.

Thanks,
    S



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