[pygobject/pygobject-2-28] Revert "[gi] Removed hack to avoid using GLib.Variant.new_variant."

[Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq src gnome org>]

commit 1598047c0ddd6a1d04d41e59dd182f3c0524f3c4
Author: Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq gnome org>
Date:   Wed Jun 8 19:18:23 2011 +0200

    Revert "[gi] Removed hack to avoid using GLib.Variant.new_variant."
    
    This reverts commit dfe95b9ec598b57deaabd98ab488ab054a44ec09.

 gi/overrides/GLib.py |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gi/overrides/GLib.py b/gi/overrides/GLib.py
index ad9f235..2caf205 100644
--- a/gi/overrides/GLib.py
+++ b/gi/overrides/GLib.py
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ GLib = modules['GLib']._introspection_module
 
 __all__ = []
 
+def _create_variant(value):
+    '''Create a variant containing the variant "value".
+    
+    This is usually done with the GLib.Variant.new_variant() leaf
+    constructor, but this is currently broken, see GNOME#639952.
+    '''
+    builder = GLib.VariantBuilder()
+    builder.init(variant_type_from_string('v'))
+    builder.add_value(value)
+    return builder.end()
+
 class _VariantCreator(object):
 
     _LEAF_CONSTRUCTORS = {
@@ -41,7 +52,8 @@ class _VariantCreator(object):
         's': GLib.Variant.new_string,
         'o': GLib.Variant.new_object_path,
         'g': GLib.Variant.new_signature,
-        'v': GLib.Variant.new_variant,
+        #'v': GLib.Variant.new_variant,
+        'v': _create_variant,
     }
 
     def _create(self, format, args):