Bug#374726: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#374726: [python2.4-dbus] Missing dependency on dbus

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:35:23PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Package: python2.4-dbus
> Version: 0.61-6
> Severity: important
> 
> I believe python2.4-dbus should depend on dbus. It currently only
> depends on libdbus-1-2, the client component, but not on dbus.
> python2.3-dbus, which seems to only be in sarge, is better in this
> regard; it depends on dbus (actually, the old package dbus-1).
> 
> I found this out when I tried to install smart-notifier, which depends
> on python2.4-dbus. It did not pull in dbus. Instead, smart-notifier
> bombed on me when I tried to start it:

Actually it's on purpose that libdbus-1-2 doesn't depend on dbus, as you should
be able to use the library without the daemon (One just needs to handle the
error).. Unfortunately nobody actually does ;(

For the next upload i've let libdbus-1-2 recommend dbus, which should fix this
issue. And the people that really don't want dbus can still choose not to
install it (Although they have to fight a little with their package maintainer)

  Sjoerd
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