[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1117106: sight: (unnecessarily?) Build-Depends on dbus-x11 (dbus-launch)

[Flavien Bridault]

Perfect, thank you for your answer, I'll give a try with a clean build 
with pbuilder.


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Le 03/10/2025 à 11:58, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> Attention ! Ce message a ?t? envoy? depuis l'ext?rieur de votre 
> organisation.
>
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2025 at 11:19:12 +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
>> Indeed we don't run tests during build. I have no idea why we require 
>> this package, we don't rely on dbus directly. For me it was there to 
>> make the Debian build system happy or something like that.
>
> Try removing it and see whether a build in a minimal environment 
> (sbuild or pbuilder or Salsa-CI) still works? If yes, then it can 
> probably be removed permanently.
>
> (sight doesn't currently compile successfully even *with* dbus-x11 - 
> see #1097881 and #1111550 - so fixing those will be a prerequisite for 
> finding out whether it can compile successfully *without* dbus-x11!)
>
>> So could help me understand if dbus-daemon or dbus-bin is required ?
>
> You need dbus-bin if you run dbus-send, dbus-monitor, dbus-uuidgen, 
> dbus-update-activation-environment or dbus-cleanup-sockets.
>
> You need dbus-daemon if you run dbus-daemon or dbus-run-session.
>
> If this package doesn't interact directly with D-Bus, then you 
> probably don't need either of those and can just remove the build-dep.
>
> Build-dependencies on D-Bus things are usually either because 
> build-time tests need it, or because the upstream build system checks 
> for something that is going to be necessary at runtime, like for example
>
>     find_program(DBUS_DAEMON dbus-daemon)
>
> and if you don't have something like that in the upstream build system 
> then you probably don't need it.
>
>     smcv
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