Source: tasksel Version: 3.35 Severity: normal User: d...@packages.debian.org Usertags: dbus-launch default-dbus-session-bus X-Debbugs-Cc: xf...@packages.debian.org
As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html> I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian. task-xfce-desktop currently Recommends dbus-x11 as a way to get a session bus. I would prefer it to pull in default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, so that either dbus-user-session or dbus-x11 can be used. My short-term goal with this is that major desktop environments in Debian stretch should be able to run with either dbus-user-session or dbus-x11, with the other one uninstalled. I've cc'd the XFCE maintainers, because the xfce4 metapackage might be a more appropriate place to insert a Depends or Recommends on default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus - if that is done, then task-xfce-desktop can drop the recommendation entirely. task-xfce-desktop transitively Depends on dbus-x11 already (via xfce and xfconf), and I have already filed an xfconf bug asking for its dbus-x11 dependency to change to default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, but if the XFCE and/or tasksel maintainers want to make it more explicit that the desktop environment as a whole depends on a D-Bus session bus then I think that's reasonable. Thanks, S
