Hi,

Removing a propagated input from gtk (by moving it to native-inputs) sounds good, but I don't see the point of the inputs->native-inputs changes.  Now I see there is a revised patch at

<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50627#8>

(albeit named v1 instead of v2).

Some comments on the new patch:

diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/gtk3-wayland-protocols-dependency.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/gtk3-wayland-protocols-dependency.patch

new file mode 100644

index 0000000000..03196713bc

--- /dev/null

+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/gtk3-wayland-protocols-dependency.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@

+diff --git a/configure b/configure

+index edd41ad..cb36877 100755

+--- a/configure

++++ b/configure

[...]

'configure' is generated stuff, not source code, so now the result of "guix build --source" is missing some source code (i.e., the revisions to configure.ac).

Proposal: modify configure.ac instead, add autotools inputs and delete 'configure' such that Guix will automatically run autoreconf, see <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-04/msg00009.html>.

Greetings,
Maxime