Control: -1 by 955910 On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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. It looks like wmauda only uses dbus-glib because libaudclient uses dbus-glib, so I'm blocking this bug by the corresponding bug for that package. And according to their website [1], libaudclient is no longer actively maintained. It hasn't been uploaded to Debian since 2014, so I'm not very confident that we're going to see a fix lol. Doug [1] https://www.audacious-media-player.org/download
