#1122590 fcitx-dbus-status: Depends on dbus, but should probably depend on session bus instead?

Package:
fcitx-dbus-status
Source:
fcitx-dbus-status
Description:
Addon for Fcitx to set/get/monitor IM statuses via D-Bus
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-08-25 16:59:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1122590#5
Date:
2025-12-11 18:18:02 UTC
From:
To:
This package has a direct Depends on the dbus package. This is probably
a larger dependency than it really needs, and could interfere with use
of the dbus-broker package as a system bus.

For details of how to replace this dependency, please see:
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/replacing-dbus-dependency.txt?ref_type=heads

Based on the package description, it looks as though this package is a
D-Bus session service. If that's true, then dbus is the wrong dependency
anyway: depending on dbus is not sufficient to guarantee the presence of
a working session bus. The correct dependency for packages that require
the session bus (like dconf-service) would be:

    default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus

If this package needs a system bus as well, then that's
default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus.

    smcv

#1122590#10
Date:
2026-08-25 16:58:56 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package fcitx-dbus-status has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1144892

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

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