[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 170500] [GTK][META] Bumping all modules of jhbuild to the latest stable version

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Thu Apr 20 23:43:21 PDT 2017


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170500

--- Comment #10 from Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #9)
> What we need to do is upgrade the libraries one-by-one so we can figure out
> if a particular library update broke tests and get the updates that don't
> break tests out of the way.

Yes, that's the plan, and the reason why this is a meta bug and the patch just a reference to be split.

> I bet only three or four of those libraries
> actually break any tests.

cairo and freetype are my bets. Other deps like libxml, gtk+, etc. will introduce failures for sure, not not that many.

> Trying to take them all on all at the same time is
> clearly not going to work.

We already realized, see comment 3.

> Maybe it would work in the future if we upgrade
> more regularly, but doing several years' worth of upgrades for all
> dependencies all at the same time is just not going to work.

Indeed, we should upgrade at least once per cycle, at the very beginning.

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