Bug#1107920: unblock: dbus-broker/37-1

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 20:52, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 20:45, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 12:10:44 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > >I am not really sure why dbus-broker is marked as a 'key package', as
> > >it's a completely optional, non-default, alternative implementation.
> >
> > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi says:
> >
> > - reason: at-spi2-core build-depends dbus-broker
> >    source: dbus-broker
> >
> > presumably because it uses dbus-broker during build-time tests?
> > (It doesn't seem to have a runtime dependency.)
> >
> > This might not be the only reason, that script stops after it finds any
> > single reason to treat a package as key.
>
> It looks like it manually launches separate buses so it forks directly
> new brokers or daemons:
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/at-spi2-core/2.56.2-1/bus/README.md/
>
> So it uses find_program() at build time:
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/at-spi2-core/2.56.2-1/bus/meson.build/?hl=72#L72
>
> That last part seems strange and unnecessary, but it explains the
> build dependency - oh well

--> https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/at-spi2-core/-/merge_requests/9