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[PATCH gnome-team 0/1] What should we do with orbit2?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>
Subject: bug#69652: closed (Re: [PATCH gnome-team v2 0/3] FIX that damn
 orbit2)
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:43:01 +0000

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#69652: [PATCH gnome-team 0/1] What should we do with orbit2?

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, Vivien Kraus
 <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>
Cc: rg <at> raghavgururajan.name, 69652-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH gnome-team v2 0/3] FIX that damn orbit2
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:40:46 +0100

Am Samstag, dem 09.03.2024 um 12:50 -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> Hi!
> 
> Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu> writes:
> 
> > Dear Guix,
> > 
> > Our new glib was the first to not let orbit2 get away with terrible
> > bad practice.  I explained the situation in the patch.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Vivien
> > 
> > Vivien Kraus (3):
> >   gnu: orbit2: Update style.
> >   gnu: orbit2: Propagate inputs.
> >   gnu: orbit2: Fix bug on 32-bit systems.
> > 
> >  gnu/local.mk                                  |  1 +
> 
> Reviewed-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail>
And pushed.

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From: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH gnome-team 0/1] What should we do with orbit2?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 18:29:35 +0100

Dear Guix,

Orbit2 is an old, unmaintained package that was used for the Gtk+2 stack, as
far as I understand. We still have Gtk+2 around, mainly for OCaml lablgtk2
(and _3, yes).

On gnome-team, this package fails to build on 32-bit systems.  I fail to
understand why it would fail on gnome-team and not on master.  If I
understood, maybe a clear solution would appear.  As of now, I can see
different mitigations:
— pretend there is no problem, skip the failing tests (they are everywhere, so
  maybe skip tests entirely) and ship it;
— remove it (I can’t see it on Debian, for instance);
— fix the test crashes (I won’t, and it is unmaintained);
— mark it as unsupported.

I went with the last option because I feel it is the most neutral thing to do.

What do you think?

Best regards,

Vivien

Vivien Kraus (1):
  gnu: orbit2: Mark it unsupported in 32-bits systems.

 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)


base-commit: 25c14c893f05019d746321285acf55d1aa65b943
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2.41.0

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