glib: disable FAM support since 2.70.2 #3768
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Topic Description
This pull request is to disable GLib's FAM (File system monitoring) support.
The original reason for this change is that the current FAM support in GLib breaks Firefox's WebExtensions threads with new new GLibC (version 2.34) and make various addons cannot work properly.
We discussed for this, and then found that Fedora has disabled GLib's FAM support since version 2.67, explaining as follows:
So finally according to the result of Community's discussions, we decide to disable FAM support in GLib since 2.70.2 to make the world better.
In addition, this PR will make following adjustments to GLib:
Package(s) Affected
Security Update?
No
Test Build(s) Done
Primary Architectures
amd64
arm64
Secondary Architectures
Architectural progress for "secondary," or experimental ports does not impede on merging of this topic.
loongson3
ppc64el
Update(s) Uploaded to Stable
Primary Architectures
amd64
arm64
Secondary Architectures
Architectural progress for "secondary," or experimental ports does not impede on merging of this topic.
loongson3
ppc64el