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Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org> Fixes: #2596
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Meson version policy
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Aims
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* Stable versions of GLib should be buildable from source on the majority of
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systems which are still supported by their vendors, without requiring the
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user to manually build a number of dependencies
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* Unstable versions of GLib should be able to take advantage of newer build
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system features where they would make maintenance of GLib easier, without
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prejudicing the other aims
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Policy
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* Stable branches of GLib will not change their Meson dependency after the
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first release of that stable series
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* Unstable branches of GLib can bump their Meson dependency if
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- at least that version of Meson currently available in Debian Testing; or
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- the Python version required by the new Meson dependency is available in
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Debian Stable *and* the oldest currently-supported Ubuntu LTS
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* The version of Meson used by GLib should be pinned and pre-installed in the
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CI `Dockerfile`s so that GLib is guaranteed to be built against the expected
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version
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The reasoning behind allowing a version bump if the Python which Meson depends
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on is available in Debian Stable is that it’s [straightforward to install a more
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recent Meson version using
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`pip`](https://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html#installing-meson-with-pip).
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