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.

fcitx-fbterm Build-Depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev, but I couldn't find
any sign of it actually *using* dbus-glib. If this analysis is correct,
please 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

Control: tags -1 + patch

It didn't use libdbus-glib-1-dev directly, but it was relying on that
package to pull in libglib2.0-dev and pkgconf. I've sent a merge request
to
https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team/fcitx-fbterm/-/merge_requests/4
to replace the obsolete Build-Depends.

Thanks,
     smcv

Control: severity -1 important

I'm raising the bug reports for remaining uses of dbus-glib to important
severity. It's now been 11 years since dbus-glib was documented as
deprecated in its own NEWS file, and it hasn't got any better-quality or
more-maintained since then.

It might be useful to note that since the initial MBF in 2018, the
migration guide from dbus-glib to GDBus has moved to
<https://docs.gtk.org/gio/migrating-gdbus.html>.

     smcv

Dear submitter,

as the package fcitx-fbterm 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/1140704

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