Bug#955843: gnome-flashback: unnecessarily Build-Depends on deprecated dbus-glib

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Apr 5 13:09:02 BST 2020


Source: gnome-flashback
Version: 3.36.1-1
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation
Control: block 895291 by -1

dbus-glib is a deprecated D-Bus library with some significant design
flaws, and is essentially unmaintained. As announced in [0], I would
like to minimize its use, and eventually remove it from Debian.

This package Build-Depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev, but I couldn't find
any sign of it actually *using* dbus-glib - presumably it used to use
dbus-glib and was later ported to GDBus? If this analysis is correct,
please remove the Build-Depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev.

If this package has other uses of dbus-glib that I have missed, please
see [0] for how to proceed.

Thanks,
    smcv

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00272.html



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