Hello, On Thu 02 Oct 2025 at 11:48pm +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: emacs > Version: 1:30.1+1-9 > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: dbus-launch dbus-launch-for-tests > > emacs Build-Depends on dbus-x11, presumably because > test/lisp/net/dbus-tests.el explicitly invokes dbus-launch. > > dbus-launch is poorly-understood legacy code and is best avoided. If > this test-case wants to start a temporary dbus-daemon, connect to it, do > some testing and then terminate it, it is better to invoke dbus-daemon > directly (which only requires the dbus-daemon package), using its > --fork, --print-address and --print-pid options: for example, search for > dbus-daemon in > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/flatpak/-/blob/debian/trixie/tests/libtest.sh > for an example of doing this in a shell script. > > See also <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>, > a mass bug filing in 2016 (at which point I think this dependency didn't > yet exist). Thank you for this. I'm CCing Michael who wrote that code, and emacs-devel in lieu of filing a report about this upstream, yet. Michael, do you have any time to replace dbus-launch in dbus-tests.el with starting a temporary dbus-daemon in the way Simon describes? (Simon is Debian's dbus expert.) Thanks. -- Sean Whitton
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