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

[Kei Kebreau]

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.

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