Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
>>
>>>>> Hi Roel,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking at updating GNOME packages as well. When I tried building
>>>>> the most recent version of Eye of GNOME, glib gave me two test
>>>>> failures. Do you think these failures could be a result of glib
>>>>> dependencies needing to be updated, or is this fixable on its own?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> Kei
>>>>
>>>> Dear Kei,
>>>>
>>>> I think I have found what fixes the two failing tests.. I run the tests
>>>> in parallel.  When I disabled running them in parallel, two tests fail
>>>> related to 'gdbus'.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Roel Janssen
>>>
>>> I have good news! Your original patch works when I upgrade dbus to its
>>> latest version, 1.10.18. So now we just need to update dbus and get the
>>> update merged into gnome-updates.
>>
>> If "glib" depends on a newer "dbus", I think it should be added in
>> 'gnome-updates' as well. Otherwise it will have to wait until the next
>> 'core-updates' cycle slated for end of next month.
>>
>> Thanks for working on this! Let's try to start building this branch on
>> Hydra next week, how does that sound?
>
> Provided that the rest of the package upgrades go smoothly, this is a
> good idea. If someone could review the dbus upgrade patch I submitted
> to the guix-patches mailing list, I can push it to gnome-updates.

I believe such simple updates are OK to just push, provided it builds
and you've verified the GPG signature and checked the code and changelog
for e.g. obsolete inputs or arguments (also see HACKING).

Obviously at 1500 dependents dbus can't be updated in 'master', but it's
okay for 'gnome-updates' since most of the dependent packages comes from
"glib" anyway:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html