On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 at 07:58:00 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Simon,
If you want a message to reach the submitter of a bug report, please
remember to Cc them - I didn't see your replies to this bug report until
I happened to see them in the BTS web interface now, because I am not a
maintainer of the kbdd package.
I'm about to do an ITS upload of kbdd[1] and I would love to support
your attempt to minimize the dbus-glib usage. However, if I simply drop
the libdbus-glib-1-dev Build-Depends this line[2] fails the configure
step.
([1] and [2] were broken links, but at the time of writing,
https://sources.debian.org/src/kbdd/0.7.1-1/configure.ac#L45 works as a
replacement reference for [2].)
On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 at 14:48:51 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
after our conversation I dived deeper into this, deactivated
the test in configure.ac which lead to
dbus-binding-tool: command not found
which makes me assume that
libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin: /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
is needed. So it seems this bug can't be fixed easily and I
leave it untouched.
Yes, if kbdd is written to use dbus-glib then it will require porting to
be able to avoid dbus-glib without dropping features.
If the feature "Enable providing D-BUS object" is not particularly
important, then this package could probably be configured with
--disable-dbus. I have no idea what this package is or what it does, so
I can't judge whether its D-Bus-related features are essential,
unnecessary, or anything in between.
Otherwise, it will need changes to the C code and build system, which
would be something to be done upstream. Uusually the most appropriate
replacement for dbus-glib is GLib's GDBus, for which there is a porting
guide at <https://docs.gtk.org/gio/migrating-gdbus.html>. Practical
examples of porting from dbus-glib to GDBus can be found in the VCS
history of many older GNOME projects.
Note that kbdd appears to be dead upstream
(https://github.com/qnikst/kbdd/issues/52) so any porting would likely
have to be done by someone who is also willing to become the new
upstream maintainer.
smcv
