[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1121465: gnome-calls: calls-daemon cannot start - error no such flag --daemon for gnome-calls

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: gnome-calls
Version: 49.1.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
Running I installed gnome-calls and its systemd user service 
always errors out with:

systemctl --user status calls-daemon
× calls-daemon.service - A phone dialer and call handler (daemon mode)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/calls-daemon.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-11-26 21:38:07 CET; 2s ago
 Invocation: 690a632777904acb902903c7c259be4d
    Process: 2637981 ExecStart=/usr/bin/gnome-calls --daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 2637981 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 19.9M
        CPU: 60ms

nov. 26 21:38:07 hermes systemd[4158]: Starting calls-daemon.service - A phone dialer and call handler (daemon mode)...
nov. 26 21:38:07 hermes gnome-calls[2637981]: Option inconnue --daemon
nov. 26 21:38:07 hermes systemd[4158]: calls-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
nov. 26 21:38:07 hermes systemd[4158]: calls-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
nov. 26 21:38:07 hermes systemd[4158]: Failed to start calls-daemon.service - A phone dialer and call handler (daemon mode).


"Option inconnue --daemon"
is
"Unknown flag --daemon"


LC_ALL=C gnome-calls --help
Usage:
  gnome-calls [OPTION?]

Help Options:
  -h, --help                Show help options
  --help-all                Show all help options
  --help-gapplication       Show GApplication options

Application Options:
  -p, --plugins=PLUGIN      The name of the plugins to load
  -l, --dial=NUMBER         Dial a telephone number
  -v, --verbose             Enable verbose debug messages
  --version                 Print current version



Best Regards,
Alban


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable-debug'), (90, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.17.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-calls depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-  0.49.0-2
    backend]
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad             1.26.8-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good            1.26.8-1
ii  init-system-helpers                  1.69
ii  libadwaita-1-0                       1.8.1-1
ii  libc6                                2.41-12
ii  libcallaudio-0-1                     0.1.99-1
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-4t64           3.56.2-4
ii  libfeedback-0.0-0                    0.8.7-1
ii  libfolks26                           0.15.9-7
ii  libgee-0.8-2                         0.20.8-2
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                      2.86.2-1
ii  libgom-1.0-0t64                      0.5.5-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                    1.26.8-1
ii  libgtk-4-1                           4.20.3+ds-2
ii  libmm-glib0                          1.24.2-2
ii  libpeas-2-0                          2.2.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                        0.21.7-2
ii  libsofia-sip-ua-glib3t64             1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1
ii  libsofia-sip-ua0t64                  1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1
ii  modemmanager                         1.24.2-2

Versions of packages gnome-calls recommends:
ii  callaudiod      0.1.99-1
ii  gnome-contacts  49.0-1

gnome-calls suggests no packages.

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