[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#1117096: libunity: unnecessarily Build-Depends on dbus-x11 (dbus-launch)

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Oct 3 01:16:22 BST 2025


Source: libunity
Version: 7.1.4+19.04.20190319-6.1
Severity: minor
User: dbus at packages.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-launch dbus-launch-for-tests

This package's upstream code seems to have switched from dbus-launch to 
dbus-run-session to run its test suite, but it still Build-Depends on 
dbus-x11. dbus-run-session only requires the dbus-daemon package. 
Please swap the build-dependency.

If I'm wrong about the tests being wrapped in dbus-run-session 
automatically, then it might be necessary to do that explicitly in 
debian/rules. For example, kf6-kconfig does this:

override_dh_auto_test:
	xvfb-run -a dbus-run-session dh_auto_test

Thanks,
    smcv



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