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

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>, 72042-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Remco van 't Veer <remco <at> remworks.net>, Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
Subject: bug#72042: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: python-gst: Fix build.
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:37:21 +0900

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I'm not in the python-team, but a branch could be set for it if there
isn't one already and an update of python-gst pushed there.  If someone
needs admin access to the Berlin CI to configure jobs I can be of help.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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