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Status for glib2.0/2.88.3-2

Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
gio-tests-services-Fix-installed-service-file-containing-.patch gio/tests/services: Fix installed service file containing build path
The refactoring in !5259 changed the installed service file's
configure_file() to use the build output as input instead of the
original .in template. Since @installed_tests_dir@ is already
substituted in the build output, the installed version gets the
build directory path instead of the install prefix.

Use the .in template directly as input for the installed version.		 Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech> yes upstream upstream, 2.88.4, commit:348ed57d6f7dc7a9d441f80864140e2ed5aabebe 2026-07-30
gdbusintrospection-Add-some-assertions-before-array-deref.patch gdbusintrospection: Add some assertions before array dereferences
The state handling inside the D-Bus introspection XML parser is
complicated, and it’s possible that these dereferences of the
`len - 1`th element might get reached when the array is empty.

Make failures like that more debuggable by adding an assertion on the
length beforehand.		 Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> yes debian upstream upstream, 2.89.0, commit:656ad4582cb1d7a7fa8bafe3ce8aec6aa3c17da0 2026-04-16
tests-Improve-D-Bus-introspection-test-paths.patch tests: Improve D-Bus introspection test paths
This makes them more consistent with how test paths are meant to be
used.		 Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> yes debian upstream upstream, 2.89.0, commit:7b276f05f66cc0df609ba68f76b8a8f4cd5297cb 2026-04-16
gdbusintrospection-Fix-XML-parser-state-handling-for-node.patch gdbusintrospection: Fix XML parser state handling for <node> element nesting

The check for whether a `<node>` element in D-Bus introspection XML was
nested correctly was broken. `<node>` elements can only be at the top
level, or nested immediately within another `<node>` element.

Fix the check and add some unit tests for it.

Spotted by linhlhq as #YWH-PGM9867-204. The fix is mine, and the unit test
uses example XML strings adapted from their report.		 Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> yes debian upstream upstream, 2.89.0, commit:c9da977c178fbfc0e4caf99f9fdf5dc433d6fcc2 2026-04-16
fuzzing-Add-a-fuzz-test-for-g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml.patch fuzzing: Add a fuzz test for g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml() Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> yes debian upstream upstream, 2.89.0, commit:4b3e3b6b69ddbca73a888c53bd98ef6916a84490 2026-04-19
01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch Call gettext if .desktop file does not have inline translations
Patch from OpenSUSE via Ubuntu, original author unknown. Martin Pitt and
Vincent Untz appear to be the main authors.

Reworked slightly by Philip Withnall to avoid exposing new public API
for the non-standard keys.		 Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com> yes upstream 2017-11-23
debian/02_gettext-desktopfiles-ubuntu.patch Provide backwards compatibility for 01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch for X-{Debian,Ubuntu}-Gettext-Domain

Ubuntu-specific. 01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch was changed to use
X-GNOME-, so this is necessary until all our .desktop files are converted.		 Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> no 2009-02-24
debian/03_disble_glib_compile_schemas_warning.patch Disable confusing (to users) warning about deprecated schema paths
Disable a warning when compiling schemas which are installed
into 'deprecated' locations. Users see this very often due to
glib-compile-schemas being called from libglib2.0-0's trigger and it is
not very useful for them.		 Iain Lane <iain.lane@canonical.com> not-needed 2012-09-10
debian/gdesktopappinfo-Try-using-x-terminal-emulator-for-Termina.patch gdesktopappinfo: Try using x-terminal-emulator for Terminal=true apps

Debian Policy provides x-terminal-emulator as an interface for launching
a preferred terminal, for some definition of "preferred". However, the
x-terminal-emulator alternative is a system-wide choice, so in situations
where for example a GNOME user and a KDE user share a computer, only one
of them can have the terminal that will match their desktop environment's
appearance and behaviour conventions as the x-terminal-emulator.

As a result, we still try to use a GTK-based terminal as a higher
preference than x-terminal-emulator. This is done on the assumption
that when apps are launched using GLib interfaces, they are most likely
to have been launched from a GTK application or GTK-based desktop
environment, and therefore a GTK-based terminal will be the best fit for
the desktop environment's conventions and appearance.

I've somewhat arbitrarily sorted x-terminal-emulator as less preferred
than KDE's Konsole, but more preferred than rxvt and various xterm
variants which are not associated with a particular desktop environment.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed debian 2023-02-04
workarounds/timer-test-use-volatile-for-locals.patch timer test: use 'volatile' for locals
GCC seems to be failing to follow the letter of the C spec by allowing extra
precision in floating point values to persist across assignments which are
optimised away.

Force its hand by using 'volatile' on the locals in question.		 Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca> yes upstream 2014-03-04
workarounds/gwakeuptest-Be-less-parallel-unless-invoked-with-m-slow.patch gwakeuptest: Be less parallel unless invoked with -m slow
This is a workaround for test failures on the reproducible-builds
infrastructure, where a multi-threaded stress-test sometimes takes longer
to finish on x86_64 than it would have done on slow architectures like
arm and mips on the official Debian autobuilders. It is not clear why.

This change will make this test more likely to pass, but less likely to
detect bugs.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no debian 2017-12-18
workarounds/closures-test-Skip-on-arm-unless-flaky-tests-are-allowed.patch closures test: Skip on arm* unless flaky tests are allowed
Choosing the right number of iterations to avoid either taking literally
hours on some hardware, or getting spurious failures when one thread
starves another, seems to be too hard to get right in practice.
Make this test opt-in so that its failures aren't release-critical.
We can run it as a separate autopkgtest that is marked flaky.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed debian 2019-01-03
workarounds/Disable-some-tests-on-slow-architectures-which-keep-faili.patch Disable some tests on slow architectures which keep failing the tests

[smcv: Modified to use g_test_skip() instead of omitting those test cases
completely, and allow them to be re-enabled with a Debian-specific
environment variable]		 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> no 2012-09-27
workarounds/Skip-test-which-performs-some-unreliable-floating-point-c.patch Skip test which performs some unreliable floating point comparisons
[smcv: Modified to use g_test_skip() instead of omitting those test cases
completely, and allow them to be re-enabled with a Debian-specific
environment variable]		 Iain Lane <laney@debian.org> no upstream 2014-03-18
workarounds/Skip-unreliable-gdbus-threading-tests--by-default.patch Skip unreliable gdbus-threading tests by default
test_threaded_singleton() test to reproduce a race condition between
last-unref of the global singleton GDBusConnection and g_bus_get_sync().

test_method_calls_in_thread() checks that multiple threads can all make
method calls to the same proxy.

However, test setup intermittently times out with:

# GLib-GIO-DEBUG: run 0: refcount is 2, sleeping
Bail out! GLib-GIO-FATAL-ERROR: connection had too many refs

The current theory upstream is that this might be a reference leak in
test_delivery_in_thread().

Furthermore, test teardown is now often failing when destroying the test
bus.

Demote these tests to be run as part of the "flaky" autopkgtests, but
not at build time or in the part of the autopkgtest run that gates
progress into testing.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no upstream 2019-01-04
workarounds/gvariant-test-Don-t-run-at-build-time-on-mips.patch gvariant test: Don't run at build-time on mips
DEB_ALLOW_FLAKY_TESTS is not quite right here, because we don't know
that the test would fail if left for long enough - the problem is that
it doesn't get there, because generating random floating-point numbers
is very slow on some of our mips hardware. However, it has the right
practical effect.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no upstream 2019-07-26
workarounds/gdbus-server-auth-Normally-skip-flaky-DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1-te.patch gdbus-server-auth: Normally skip flaky DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 tests
These intermittently fail on the buildds, but the failure cannot be
reproduced in a debugging environment.

We do not expect to use D-Bus over TCP on non-Windows platforms: we use
an AF_UNIX socket, which is much more robust and secure. However, when
using AF_UNIX, DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 is unnecessary, because we can use the
more reliable EXTERNAL authentication.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed 2020-11-19
workarounds/Skip-memory-monitor-dbus-test-if-not-specifically-request.patch Skip memory-monitor-dbus test if not specifically requested
This seems to be unreliable, particularly on non-x86.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no debian 2021-10-24
workarounds/tests-Skip-debugcontroller-test.patch tests: Skip debugcontroller test
This is known to be flaky upstream.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed 2022-02-15
workarounds/testfilemonitor-Skip-if-we-are-avoiding-flaky-tests.patch testfilemonitor: Skip if we are avoiding flaky tests
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1634		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no 2020-02-25
debian/girepository-Describe-the-Debian-specific-cross-prefixed-.patch girepository: Describe the Debian-specific cross-prefixed names Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed 2024-02-28
debian/girepository-Search-for-typelibs-in-the-pre-multiarch-pat.patch girepository: Search for typelibs in the pre-multiarch path
The majority of GIR typelibs are now installed in
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/girepository-1.0, but a small number of
packages still install typelibs into /usr/lib/girepository-1.0.

This patch can (and should) be dropped after the result of
`apt-file search /usr/lib/girepository-1.0` becomes empty.
See bug reports:
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=usr-lib-girepository-1.0		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed debian 2025-10-21

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