According to upstream (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/tree/NEWS), upower was ported from dbus-glib to gdbus in version 0.99.4
that's correct, the dbus-glib dep can be dropped.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1c9ce8fdc52f69b5f711f20c90b8319b86edf861 commit 1c9ce8fdc52f69b5f711f20c90b8319b86edf861 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-10-06 22:21:41 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-10-06 22:21:41 +0000 sys-power/upower: Drop dbus-glib dep Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/693962 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> sys-power/upower/upower-0.99.11.ebuild | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)