Bug#1122735: vdr-plugin-xineliboutput: directly Depends on dbus

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Dec 12 11:41:53 GMT 2025


Source: vdr-plugin-xineliboutput
Severity: normal
Tags: forky sid
User: dbus at packages.debian.org
Usertags: direct-dbus-dependency

Various binary packages built by this source have a direct Depends on 
the dbus package, which conflicts with use of the non-default 
dbus-broker package as a system bus.

For details of how to replace this dependency, please see:
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/replacing-dbus-dependency.txt?ref_type=heads

I don't know whether this is a D-Bus session bus service or a D-Bus 
system bus service. If it's a session bus service (like dconf-service or 
MPRIS), then dbus is the wrong dependency anyway: depending on dbus is 
not sufficient to guarantee the presence of a working session bus. The 
correct dependency for packages that require the session bus would be:

    default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus

Or if it's a system bus service (like network-manager or avahi-daemon), 
please use

    default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus

which allows use of any implementation.

    smcv



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