Subject: Re: [bug#38994] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: glib: Fix g_app_info_get_default_for_type.

From: Jonathan Brielmaier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:22:49 +0100

On 07.01.20 00:45, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> I would personally like, if we can update to 2.62. Because that is
>> needed for updating gnome to 3.34
>> (https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/commits/wip-gnome-3.34). What do you think?
>
> Sure, why not (on core-updates)?  There's glib 2.63 released upstream.

I wonder if uneven release numbers at glib mark development/unstable
releases. As it's the case in the rest of GNOME.

> Right now, core-updates has glib 2.60.6 still (as has master).
>
> If you try to update glib, be advised that core-updates is broken right now[1].
>
> On the other hand that means that we could update glib on core-updates right
> away since core-updates could not built anything using it anyway :P
>
> (The bug upstream is still open, so it will not improve things in that regard)
>
> [1] texlive-bin build error <https://bugs.gnu.org/38999>; texlive is required for glib-with-documentation.