Bug#1127379: at-spi2-core: a11y bus fails to start if dbus-broker is the sole dbus provider

[Norbert Lange]

Package: at-spi2-core
Version: 2.59.0-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: nolange79 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

with forky, its possible to have the Desktop use dbus-broker and no dbus-daemon binary installed.
Starting Programs usign the bus will then report:

AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.a11y.Bus.Error: Failed to spawn child process “/usr/bin/dbus-daemon” (No such file or directory)

and some Tools like tecla then crash.


Upstream already supports dbus-broker, so all that is needed is to add the line to debian/rules:

configure_options += -Ddbus_broker=/usr/bin/dbus-broker-launch

I build the package with this modification, and the problem is gone

Regards, Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.18.5+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 at-spi2-core depends on:
ii  at-spi2-common             2.59.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  50~alpha-1
ii  libatspi2.0-0t64           2.59.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.42-11+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.16.2-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64            2.86.3-5
ii  libsystemd0                259-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.8.12-1+b1
ii  libxtst6                   2:1.2.5-1+b1

at-spi2-core recommends no packages.

at-spi2-core suggests no packages.

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