Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:13 pm, Jordan Petridis <jordan alatiera com> 
wrote:
> There's also c) include a temporary patch in gnome-build-meta till 
> the MR is merged,
> though git will complain about the patch being already applied once 
> merged and break
> the build.
>
> There's also d) pin the module to your branch/fork of the MR which 
> fixes the build,
> and open an issue against build-meta with a due date in 2 days or so 
> to remove it and
> so its not forgotten.

Strategy (d) seems safer. Anyway yeah, both are possible, with some 
small additional effort. I don't want to do the small additional 
effort, though. :P Fixing build failures is already no fun at all. If 
someone else wants to handle things differently, that's fine by me, so 
long as I don't have to....