[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#510634: Bug#510634: cups doesn't allow introspection in dbus config file

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:39 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Matthew Johnson [2009-01-03 22:36 +0000]:
> > The cups config file for dbus doesn't allow introspection requests.
> > Because all it does is send signals this isn't an RC issue, but it
> > should have working introspection for those signals.
> 
> As far as I can see, cups does not need any D-BUS configuration at
> all, since it does not provide any service. It only sends signals,
> which are allowed by default anyway. Thus I'm going to drop the file
> entirely.
> 
Because it emits signals, it should allow for introspection of the
objects that emit the signal that details the name of the signal,
number, name and type of its arguments, etc.

This introspection is generally provided at the binding level, but you
still need the policy to allow it (it's a method call on your object).

Scott
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