[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#836062: xfce4-session: please switch from dbus-x11 to default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus

[Simon McVittie]

Source: xfce4-session
Version: 4.12.1-4
Severity: normal
User: dbus at packages.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-launch default-dbus-session-bus

As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>
I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian.
This package currently Depends on dbus-x11 as a way to get a session bus.

This package falls into the "desktop sessions" category: please replace

    Recommends: dbus-x11

with

    Recommends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus

so that either dbus-user-session or dbus-x11 can be used. My short-term
goal with this is that major desktop environments in Debian stretch should
be able to run with either dbus-user-session or dbus-x11, with the other
one uninstalled.

This package will also need a change in upstream code to avoid running
dbus-launch when DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is unset, but
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus exists. I've opened a separate bug for that.

Thanks,
    S