I could not find any evidence for your assertion that "parts of dbus actually attempt to call dbus-launch", the only time this would be true would be if you used an "autolaunch:" path for the bus address and attempted to connect to it.
Since this is never done by default, the Suggests: dbus-x11 seems sufficient ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- dbus should depend on dbus-x11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120089 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs