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and subject line Bug#955971: fixed in xiphos 4.4.0+dfsg1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #955971,
regarding xiphos: Depends on deprecated dbus-glib
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Source: xiphos
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bullseye
Control: block 895291 by -1
User: [email protected]
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: xiphos
Source-Version: 4.4.0+dfsg1-1
Done: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xiphos, 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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xiphos package)
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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:35:11 +0200
Source: xiphos
Architecture: source
Version: 4.4.0+dfsg1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: CrossWire Packaging Team
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Closes: 955971 1009764
Changes:
xiphos (4.4.0+dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload
* New upstream version 4.4.0 (Closes: #955971, #1009764)
* Drop upstream patch
* Depend on libspeechd
* Enable GtkTextView editor
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