Bug#1122598: gnome-builder: directly Build-Depends on dbus

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Dec 12 09:53:46 GMT 2025


On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 at 17:38:09 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>> I would guess that dbus-daemon is probably a more appropriate dependency
>> here, but I haven't inspected the source code in detail. It's possible
>> that the dependency isn't necessary any more - I don't see any
>> obvious references to dbus-run-session or GTestDBus in codesearch.
>
>Here's a log excerpt when I don't use dbus-run-session with
>dh_auto_test. One test fails

If there's a use of dbus-run-session that I didn't notice, then a 
dependency on the dbus-daemon package is completely fine.

     smcv



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