bug#26534: [PATCH] gnu: Update glib to 2.52.1.

[Kei Kebreau]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:

> Kei Kebreau writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>>>> Hi Roel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking at updating GNOME packages as well. When I tried building
>>>>>> the most recent version of Eye of GNOME, glib gave me two test
>>>>>> failures. Do you think these failures could be a result of glib
>>>>>> dependencies needing to be updated, or is this fixable on its own?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>> Kei
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Kei,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I have found what fixes the two failing tests.. I run the tests
>>>>> in parallel.  When I disabled running them in parallel, two tests fail
>>>>> related to 'gdbus'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Roel Janssen
>>>>
>>>> I have good news! Your original patch works when I upgrade dbus to its
>>>> latest version, 1.10.18. So now we just need to update dbus and get the
>>>> update merged into gnome-updates.
>>>
>>> If "glib" depends on a newer "dbus", I think it should be added in
>>> 'gnome-updates' as well. Otherwise it will have to wait until the next
>>> 'core-updates' cycle slated for end of next month.
>>>
>>> Thanks for working on this! Let's try to start building this branch on
>>> Hydra next week, how does that sound?
>>
>> Provided that the rest of the package upgrades go smoothly, this is a
>> good idea. If someone could review the dbus upgrade patch I submitted
>> to the guix-patches mailing list, I can push it to gnome-updates.
>
> I cannot seem to find the patch message you are referring to, or is it
> from 10 Oct 2016, titled "Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates"?
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen

It's bug #26683 (it might not have shown up so quickly, as I had just
sent it). FWIW, I'm just going to push it to gnome-updates since
it's okay with Marius. Thanks for debugging the tests.

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