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Bug#955970: marked as done (xfce4-session: Depends on deprecated dbus-glib)

Your message dated Sun, 03 May 2020 13:50:20 +0000
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and subject line Bug#955970: fixed in xfce4-session 4.14.2-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #955970,
regarding xfce4-session: Depends on deprecated dbus-glib
to be marked as done.

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Source: xfce4-session
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bullseye
Control: block 895291 by -1
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation

dbus-glib is a deprecated D-Bus library with some significant design
flaws, and is essentially unmaintained. I would like to minimize its
use, and eventually remove it from Debian. There will not be a
version that fixes its design flaws, because that would be a major
compatibility break, and any user of dbus-glib who is willing to port
their application to a newer, incompatible version should instead be
porting their application to a better D-Bus implementation such as
GDBus.

For most purposes, the recommended replacement for dbus-glib is the
GDBus family of APIs in GLib, found in <gio/gio.h>. This does not add
an additional dependency, because dbus-glib already depends on a
sufficiently new version of GLib. A porting guide is available in the
GLib documentation:
<https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch35.html>. Practical
examples of porting from dbus-glib to GDBus can be found in the git
history of most older GNOME applications.

Alternatives to GDBus, with different design emphasis and trade-offs,
include sd-bus (systemd's D-Bus implementation), QtDBus (Qt's D-Bus
API), and libdbus (the low-level reference D-Bus implementation).
Please contact the D-Bus mailing list <dbus at lists.freedesktop.org>
if you are unsure which D-Bus implementation is most suitable for a
particular package.

Some libraries expose dbus-glib as part of their API/ABI, in which
case removing the deprecated dependency requires breaking API/ABI
(telepathy-glib is a good example). For these libraries, maintainers
should talk to the dependent library's upstream developers about
whether the dependent library should break API/ABI and switch to
GDBus, or whether the dependent library should itself be deprecated.

In a few cases, the package uses the reference D-Bus library libdbus
for all D-Bus-related APIs, and only uses dbus-glib as a way to
connect libdbus to the GLib main loop: if the only functions
referenced from dbus-glib are dbus_connection_setup_with_g_main() and
dbus_server_setup_with_g_main(), then you are in this situation. The
recommended replacement in this case is to bundle the dbus-gmain
branch from the dbus-glib git repository, for example as a `git
subtree` or `git submodule`. For example, dbus-python's GLib
integration now works like this. See
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/blob/dbus-gmain/README
.md> for more details.

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Source: xfce4-session
Source-Version: 4.14.2-1
Done: Unit 193 <unit193@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfce4-session, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 955970@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Unit 193 <unit193@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfce4-session package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 09:20:23 -0400
Source: xfce4-session
Architecture: source
Version: 4.14.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <debian-xfce@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Unit 193 <unit193@debian.org>
Closes: 955970
Changes:
 xfce4-session (4.14.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Use set -e rather than passing -e on the shebang-line.
   * Set upstream metadata fields: Name (from ./configure), Repository.
 .
   [ Mateusz Łukasik ]
   * New upstream version 4.14.2
   * d/control: update standards version to 4.5.0
 .
   [ Unit 193 ]
   * d/*dirs: Drop, taken care of by d/install.
   * d/control:
     - Drop B-D on libdbus-glib-1-dev, libtool, libwnck-dev, libxml-parser-perl.
       (Closes: #955970)
     - R³: no.
   * d/maintscript, d/preinst: Drop some 4.8 era migration rules.
   * d/postrm: Drop, redundant with d/prerm.
   * d/rules: Drop dbgsym migration.
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