Source: intel-lpmd Severity: normal Tags: sid forky Control: block 895291 by -1 User: [email protected] Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation
This package appears to build-depend on dbus-glib (libdbus-glib-1-dev) but does not have a corresponding runtime dependency on libdbus-glib-1-2. Looking at codesearch.debian.net, it seems that it *previously* depended on dbus-glib, but upstream already removed that dependency. If that's the case, please update the Build-Depends to match. dbus-glib is a long-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://docs.gtk.org/gio/migrating-gdbus.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). Thanks, smcv
