Bug#836050: pygobject: please use dbus-run-session to run tests

[Simon McVittie]

Source: pygobject-2
Version: 2.28.6-13
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
User: dbus at packages.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-launch dbus-launch-for-tests

As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>
I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian.
This package currently uses dbus-x11 for tests, explicitly invoking
dbus-launch and leaking a dbus-daemon process.

This is very similar to the bug I just opened against pygobject,
which does have a fix for the leaked process.

It should be possible to replace dbus-x11 (while fixing the leak) as
follows:

* replace the build-dependency on dbus-x11 with dbus (>= 1.8)
* patch tests/Makefile.am something like this:
  - remove "DBUS_LAUNCH=$(shell which dbus-launch)"
  - remove "export `$(DBUS_LAUNCH)` &&"
  - put "dbus-run-session --" just before "$(EXEC_NAME)" in the
    check-local target

This change should ideally go upstream, if upstream still take patches
for pygobject-2.

Thanks,
    S