Package: mp3splt-gtk Severity: normal Tags: sid forky Control: block 895291 by -1 User: [email protected] Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation
mp3splt appears to depend on dbus-glib (libdbus-glib-1-dev, libdbus-glib-1-2). Looking at codesearch.debian.net, this appears to be because it uses dbus-glib in the GTK version to remote-control Audacious. Perhaps that feature could be disabled, or ported to a better D-Bus implementation like GDBus? 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). smcv
