Bug#1134809: shutter: Depends on unmaintained dbus-glib via Perl bindings

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Apr 24 11:21:50 BST 2026


Source: shutter
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
Control: block 955914 by -1
Control: block 895291 by -1
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation

shutter appears to be the only package in Debian that depends on 
libnet-dbus-glib-perl, which is a Perl binding for the unmaintained 
library dbus-glib (see #895291).

It would be useful if its D-Bus functionality could be converted to some 
more modern implementation: perhaps GLib's GDBus, via GObject-Introspection.

(If I'm reading correctly, perhaps it is only used to communicate with 
compiz and temporarily disable focus-stealing prevention? Or perhaps 
shutter doesn't even need libnet-dbus-glib-perl at all, only 
libnet-dbus-perl?)

Thanks,
    smcv



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