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[core-updates] Python-gst fails its test suite

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Message #31 received at 72042-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Remco van 't Veer <remco <at> remworks.net>, Maxim Cournoyer
 <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>,
 72042-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
Subject: Re: bug#72042: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: python-gst: Fix build.
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:59:04 +0200

Am Mittwoch, dem 11.09.2024 um 09:29 +0200 schrieb Remco van 't Veer:
> Hi Maxim,
> 
> 2024/09/11, Maxim Cournoyer:
> 
> > It's nice that this fixes the package build, but propagating
> > various version of Python libraries a road that to leads to
> > problems.  Currently it's important that propagated things are all
> > compatible together.
> > 
> > I'd suggest trying to update python-gst to see if it works with the
> > newer python-pygobject instead.
> 
> It does because this is the newer version.  I proposed to do a graft
> or
> just go for the upgrade[1] but python-pygobject has a lot of
> dependent
> packages.
> 
>   $ guix refresh --list-dependent python-pygobject
>   Building the following 2015 packages would ensure 4466 dependent
> packages are rebuilt: ..
> 
> Should I provide a patch to just go for the newer version?
How many dependents does python-gst have?
Can we patch it to work with the current version?
If not, can sneak in python-gobject-3.48 as a regular input instead of
propagating it?

Perhaps we could even delay this for gnome-team, where massive rebuilds
are less of an issue.

Cheers

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