Bug#320015: gnome should depend on dbus-1-utils

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Tue Jul 26 13:14:41 UTC 2005


reassign 320015 gnome-session
tags 320015 + pending fixed-upstream
thanks

        Hi,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005, Wouter wrote:
> The package dbus-1-utils contains /usr/bin/dbus-launch, which is needed to
> start a DBUS session. If you put the line 'use-session-dbus' in
> /etc/X11/Xsession.options (this is default in xorg; this is not default in
> the xfree86 package) the session bus will be started upon login.
> 
> Because none of the gnome-related packages depend on dbus-1-utils, it won't
> be installed on most standard desktop machines. As more programs start using
> dbus, it might me wise to add a dependency on dbus-1-utils to gnome-session.

 Thanks for your report.  I've added a Recommends to the gnome-session
 binary package.

   Bye,

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