On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 at 14:07:18 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 04 Aug 2016 at 01:43PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > >> Other options > > I note that no such binary package exists right now. Does this issue > remain unresolved? I also note recent discussion on d-devel. Kindly > update this bug with the present state of play.
The routes that I described as "other options" were not taken. The current situation is that we have the two virtual packages that I proposed in the original bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833401#5 modulo the rename of dbus-default-session-bus to default-dbus-session-bus as mentioned in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833401#10 (trying to continue/establish a convention that the preferred implementation of a virtual package foo is default-foo). So: * dbus-session-bus: anything providing the D-Bus well-known session bus for most or all user login sessions. If dbus-session-bus is installed, then programs in at least graphical login sessions can rely on seeing the $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable, the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus Unix socket, or some other way to discover a session bus that is supported by all the major D-Bus client libraries. * default-dbus-session-bus: Debian's preferred implementation of dbus-session-bus, possibly architecture-specific. Programs and desktop environments that require a D-Bus session bus and cannot work without one should normally declare: Depends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus unless they have more specific requirements. Programs with weaker dependencies can use a Recommends or a Suggests. (Implementation detail: default-dbus-session-bus is currently provided by dbus-user-session on Linux, and by dbus-x11 on non-Linux ports. On Linux, dbus-x11 is a non-default implementation of dbus-session-bus, to be used by people who prefer to have one session bus per X11 display, or who don't want systemd or systemd-logind.) smcv