Bug#955840: freerdp2: unnecessarily Build-Depends on deprecated dbus-glib
Source: freerdp2
Version: 0.2.0-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-glib-deprecation
Control: block 895291 by -1
dbus-glib is a deprecated D-Bus library with some significant design
flaws, and is essentially unmaintained. As announced in [0], I would
like to minimize its use, and eventually remove it from Debian.
freerdp2 Build-Depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev, and its upstream build
system checks that dbus-glib is available at build-time, but I couldn't
find any references to dbus-glib being used in practice. If this analysis
is correct, please remove the build system checks for dbus-glib (this
change could usefully be sent upstream) and remove the Build-Depends on
libdbus-glib-1-dev.
If this package has other uses of dbus-glib that I have missed, please
see [0] for how to proceed.
Thanks,
smcv
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00272.html
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