Plan for gobject-introspection / pygobject2 mismatch?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Hello all,

The stable release of pygobject2 does not support the latest versions
of gobject-introspection (that we ship in F-16 and Rawhide); this is
exposed by e.g. gnome-tweak-tool not working; see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719791 for details.

Mageia has a fix for this (thanks, Adam Williamson, for ferreting out
other distros' bug reports), which involves making
gobject-introspection generate old-style annotations. The commit for
that fix (see my comment on the bugzilla link) mentions that the
alternative is to use the invoke-rewrite branch of pygobject2.

Since there probably are other affected apps, in addition to
gnome-tweak-tool, we probably need to find a solution to this quick.
Do pygobject2 and gobject-introspection maintainers have a preference
as to which? My preference is to update pygobject2 -- if we revert
gobject-introspection, who knows what other bugs might crop up; and
pygobject2's rewrite could use some additional testers anyway.

Thanks,

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Michel Alexandre Salim
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