Re: Update your libhandy submodules (and packages)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 07:12 -0600, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> Yeah, a new libhandy release ASAP would be appreciated.
>
> Affected applications:
>
> epiphany
> gnome-bluetooth

It's not affected. The only widget is a copy/paste.

> gnome-contacts
> gnome-control-center
> gnome-games
>
> I think libhandy has reached the point that it's time to start
> thinking 
> about making it a system dependency so we don't have to enter panic 
> mode to update a bunch of different places whenever there's a bug
> like 
> this. (There will be more bugs.)

I'd really rather libraries that sit in between GLib/GTK and the app to
live on GNOME servers.

And this particular bug still needs a release to fix it.

> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:06 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
> wrote:
> > For the release-team:
> > Did the definition and acceptance criteria change for external
> > dependencies? libhandy is a library hosted on a 3rd-party server
> > which
> > some core applications have a dependency on.
>
> We don't really have any formal rules for external dependencies, I 
> think not since the GNOME 2 days.

I'll bear that in mind next time I get a complaint about the required
version of meson being too new *cough* ;)