Bug#997937: Bug#997936: gedit FTBFS with meson 0.60.0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 important

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 01:17:20PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 14:47:06 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/gedit.html
> > ../data/meson.build:6:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
> 
> There are going to be a lot of FTBFSs like this, affecting most of GNOME.
> 
> If this is i18n.merge_file(), then Meson 0.60.1 is likely to make that
> into a deprecation warning instead of a fatal error:
> <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/9445>
> 
> (We'll still need to fix these at some point, of course.)

Thanks for this information, I am lowering the severity of the bugs 
already filed.

>     smcv

cu
Adrian