Changing the recommends to depends for dbus-user-session won't fix the immediate problem, unless gnome-terminal is changed to use something other than `dbus-launch` to do whatever it is that it's trying to do. dbus-x11 provides the dbus-launch executable. dbus-user-session does not.
Is there a guideline on how major changes should be to the stable release? In testing of course it makes sense to implement the new dbus-user-session method. To fix the problem in stable, would it be the least amount of change to bump dbus-x11 from recommends to depends? Then no actual code has to be changed on stable. Mark On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 10.08.2017 um 01:29 schrieb Mark Hedges: > > Package: gnome-terminal > > Version: 3.22.2-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Tried to install gnome-terminal by itself on a system without the > tasksel window system tasks run. It wouldn't launch until I manually > installed the dbus-x11 package. Looks like the control file needs this > dependency. > > > > Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: > > ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.18-1 > > ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.18-1 > > dbus-x11 is deprecated and should not used directly anymore. With > systemd, dbus-user-session is the preferred method. > We could consider bumping that recommends to a depends. > >
