[Slackbuilds-users] libhandy about to update to 1.8.3

[B. Watson]

Someone requested an update to libhandy, so I'm updating it to the
latest stable, version 1.8.3.

A lot of GNOME builds depend on libhandy. If your build appears on this
list:

https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=libhandy

...then you should test it with libhandy-1.8.3. To do this, download the
source from https://download.gnome.org/sources/libhandy/1.8/libhandy-1.8.3.tar.xz,
make sure gi-docgen is installed (it's a new dependency for libhandy), and
run libhandy.SlackBuild with VERSION=1.8.3 set in the environment. Then
install/upgrade the package you just built.

I've test-built everything on the list except nwg-shell (because it
has 106 dependencies) and epiphany (waiting for webkit2gtk-4.1 to
finish building, as I write this).

Everything builds fine with the new libhandy. I didn't
run-test everything: I don't run Wayland so I didn't try to run
SwayNotificationCenter or nwg-panel. Some of the GNOME components
won't work outside of a GNOME session (the ones that will, seem to run
correctly). Details here:

https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/src/libhandy-testing.20240729.txt

My run-testing isn't in-depth: I don't use any of these applications,
so mostly I just made sure they'd start up, and do some simple things
(e.g. view one image in gnome-photos, get one set of directions from
gnome-maps). The maintainers of these builds should really do their
own in-depth testing.

If nobody reports any problems by Friday, the libhandy update will be
merged in the next weekly update.