Hi Leo!

>>>> +  (let ((commit "cbd43984ebdf783e94c8303c41385bf82aa36d5b")
>>>> +        (revision "12"))
>>>> +    (hidden-package
>>>> +     (package
>>>> +       (inherit rlottie)
>>>> +       (version
>>>> +        (git-version "0.2" revision commit))
>>> According to Github, Telegram's rlottie is 19 commits ahead and 193
>>> commits behind Samsung's rlottie, whereas Samsung has had 34
>>> commits to
>>> master since the release of 0.2.  In other words, this should still
>>> be
>>> 0.1, and I'm not too sure about revision 12.
>>
>> The desktop-app/rlottie forked samsung/rlottie at a commit
>> corresponding
>> to v0.2. After forking, desktop-app/rlottie made 19 commits. The
>> 12th
>> commit is what the package is what this package is building from.
>> Hence
>> the revision number 12.
> That timeline makes little sense.  The v0.2 release was on August 19th
> 2020, but the two libraries diverge on August 7th -- again according to
> Github.  The files also indicate 0.1.
> 
>>>> +    (name "telegram-desktop")
>>>> +    (version "2.5.8")
>>> Any news w.r.t. tdesktop#10182 in this build?
>>
>> Nope! :-(
>>
>> But build fails w.r.t updated version of tg_owt. I'll have to send
>> v26.
> I don't think building static libraries is very guixy.  If 2.5.8 is no
> significant improvement over 2.5.1 in that regard, let's stay with the
> latter while we can still build shared libraries.

Agreed. I have sent v27.

Regards,
RG.