Subject: Re: [bug#33701] [PATCH staging 00/23] Glib/GTK+ updates

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:05:49 -0500

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 02:12:05AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> This late series adds around 1000 rebuilds to the current staging
> branch.  They also bring many of the GNOME family libraries to the
> latest upstream versions.
> 
> The good:
> * Latest Ghostscript, Poppler, Harfbuzz, GnuTLS, and other
>   security-critical libraries.

That's great.

>   Some of these have changed
>   build systems, or ABIs, so future patching is easier.

Okay, makes sense.

> * Most/all regressions are already fixed.

Good :)

> The bad:
> * GCC7 is now in the closure of cURL (via nghttp2).

Oh well.

> 
> The ugly:
> * 37 files changed, 1225 insertions(+), 996 deletions(-)
> * Total rebuild count for staging is around 4700 packages.
> 
> WDYT?

It seems like a lot, but it's probably not higher than previous staging
branches, right? I have an intuitive sense of how quickly Hydra could
build this, but not for Cuirass on <berlin.guixsd.org>. Does it seem
reasonable to you?