Dear maintainers,

dbus-python already build-depends on python3-tap.  Could you please
consider to let python3-dbus-tests recommend python3-tap as well.

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

What advantage would there be to users or developers if this Recommends
was present?

The autopkgtest already depends on python3-tap, and the tests themselves
gracefully fall back to basic pass/fail output if python3-tap is not
installed.

     smcv

Hello Simon,

you are right of course, the tests also work if python3-tap is not
installed.

It has been quite some time since I wrote this ticket.  So IIRC, the
output "(tap module not available)" had been the initial impulse for
it, and I (myself) basically prefer if packages have dependencies on
all those packages that are needed for full functionality (in one way
or another, that is "Depends", "Recommends", or "Suggests").

Obviously, in a TAP-only aware environment (e.g., Perl) without
python3-tap, you would just see the final result in a summary: 100%
passing or failing instead of anything in between [0, 100%] if only
some of the unit tests fail.  The reason for it is the implemented
work-around in dbus_test_utils.py.  Also I kind of like the clarity
of the summary that Perl's Test::Harness provides.

If you are worried about automatically pulling in the indirectly
dependent packages python3-more-itertools and python3-yaml, then
maybe adding "Suggests: python3-tap" instead could be good compromise.

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle

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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dbus-python, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:58:26 +0100
Source: dbus-python
Architecture: source
Version: 1.5.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: 1039499 1144533
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