[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#998428: dbus-session-bus-common: Deprecated option in /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 09:42:57 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dbus-session-bus-common,dbus-broker
> 
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021 at 23:56:07 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> > While starting the D-Bus User Message Bus it's possible to see:
> > 
> > =====
> > dbus-broker-launch[5405]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in
/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +31: Eavesdropping is deprecated and
ignored
> > dbus-broker-launch[5405]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in
/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +33: Eavesdropping is deprecated and
ignored
> > =====
> 
> dbus-session-bus-common is the configuration of the well-known
session
> bus as provided by dbus, the reference implementation of D-Bus.
> 
> You appear to be using dbus-broker, a reimplementation of D-Bus,
which
> borrows the configuration of the well-known buses from dbus.
> 
> If dbus-broker considers something to be deprecated, of course that's
up
> to the maintainers of dbus-broker; but dbus takes backwards
compatibility
> seriously, and so does not configure the session bus to forbid legacy
> eavesdropping (even though legacy eavesdropping was a bad design and
> has been superseded by Monitoring).
> 
>     smcv
> 
> 
While warnings like this are a bit annoying to have in the default
installation, on balance I think having a common config between the
implementations will keep us "honest" (on the dbus-broker side) w.r.t.
interoperability, so I'm inclined to leave it as-is.
-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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