Philip Withnall

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(I have no intention of following this up further: just filing the bug so some interested party from Fedora can follow it up, or at least all the conversation about...

I have not tested, but IIRC it should work fine with at least gnome-software 40. This all came to light because we changed the default/fallback icons for gnome-software 41, and...

A reasonable response to this issue might be to ignore it and start shifting people over to using `appstreamcli validate` instead of `appstream-util validate`, if all other things are equal....

Here’s a reference for how Debian version numbers are defined and should be compared: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-version.5.en.html > FWIW, I don't think `2:2.9+git20200213+877d9a0-1` is something we should ever show the user. I...

I think they can deal with a one-time change if it means that the ABI is more well-defined in future.

> Do you know if there is a Glib macro for this? Thanks. There is not. There’s `G_GNUC_INTERNAL` for marking things internal, but there’s no public macro for marking things...

Looks reasonable to me, but I would have done it the other way round: explicitly mark symbols which should be exported, rather than explicitly marking symbols that shouldn’t. Have symbols...

I think what you prototyped above is also sane, just perhaps a little less maintainable in the long term. I think whitelisting is a slightly more maintainable approach, but both...

Some suggestions: * [Wayland](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/) (specifically, its display protocol handling from clients) * [gdk-pixbuf](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf) (image loaders) * [tracker-miners](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners) (extracts data from a variety of file types)

> This is one of the steps that happens when switching the display language on Fedora 36 Silverblue. ⇒ It’s actually triggered by gnome-software installing `langpacks-ru` in the background after...