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[PATCH 00/40] Update Xfce to 4.14

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Cc: 37121 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#37121] [PATCH 32/40] gnu: libxklavier: Update to 5.4.
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:24:57 +0200

L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> L  p R n  d n <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (libxklavier): Update to 5.4.
>>> [source] Switch to git source.
>>> [arguments] Add no-configure phase. Disable xmodmap in #:configure-flags.
>>> [inputs] Add which, intltool, gtk-doc, which, automake, autoconf and libtool.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> -    (version "5.3")
>>> +    (version "5.4")
>>>      (source (origin
>>> -              (method url-fetch)
>>> -              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnome/sources/" name "/"
>>> -                                  version "/" name "-" version ".tar.xz"))
>>> +              (method git-fetch)
>>> +              (uri
>>> +               (git-reference
>>> +                (url (string-append "https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/" name))
>>> +                (commit "396955bd2ba2db34a42b3807b03155fcc11dfe50")))
>>>                (sha256
>>>                 (base32
>>> -                "016lpdv35z0qsw1cprdc2k5qzkdi5waj6qmr0a2q6ljn9g2kpv7b"))))
>>> +                "1w1x5mrgly2ldiw3q2r6y620zgd89gk7n90ja46775lhaswxzv7a"))
>>> +              (file-name (git-file-name name version))))
>>
>> How does this commit relate to version 5.4?
>> <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibXklavier/> says that
>> release tarballs are available on the GNOME web site, and there’s no 5.4
>> there.
>
> That's true, it's only available  through git. The commit seems to be
> 6 years old and after some invastigation, 5.4 appears to be used
> by other distributions (at least Nixos, Arch and Debian) for several
> years. I don't know what are upstream's plans nor why it's not available
> on GNOME's website though.

OK.  I see there’s a ‘libxklavier-5.4’ tag in the Git repo above.  Could
you explicitly use this tag in the source rather than a commit ID, for
clarity?  Like so:

  (git-reference
    (url …)
    (commit (string-append "libxklavier-" version)))

>> Was this change necessary for the Xfce upgrade?
>
> Yeah, I'm not really confortable with this either but xfce4-xkb-plugin
> explicitely ask for at least libxklavier 5.4. On the other hand
> xfce4-xbd-plugin is not part of xfce's core so that update is arguable.

OK.  Then we’ll make sure to apply the libxklavier upgrade before the
Xfce upgrade.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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