Subject: Re: bug#51428: core-updates-frozen-batched-changes built and ready to merge

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:00:07 -0400

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> +(define %gdk-pixbuf-loaders-cache-file
>> +  "lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache")
>
> A comment indicating that this file is built by the hook would be nice,
> but let’s not trigger a rebuild just for that.

I've added the following comment:

;; This file is to be generated by the
;; `generate-gdk-pixbuf-loaders-cache' build phase defined below.

> Isn’t the hard-coded version number going to cause troubles when
> gdk-pixbuf is upgraded?  Or if we have some packages using a newer
> version while others remain on 2.10.0?

I was puzzled by it at the beginning, but it seems some historical
related version string that isn't meant to change.  Even newer versions
of gdk-pixbuf refer to this older version in their documentation/build
system.

Thank you!

Maxim