3544 was a previous request for updating F43 the gedit ecosystem (gedit, gedit-plugins, and libgedit-*) to 49.0, which was graciously approved. Upstream has now released version 50.0, which includes an incompatible update to libgedit-gtksourceview. gedit versioning and release cycle has had a tenuous relation at best to GNOME's, and upstream has indicated that releases may be more frequent in the future.

No other packages outside the gedit ecosystem currently depends on these libraries. (Full disclosure: I have proposed the addition of enter-tex in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2427068 which would, but that originates from the same project and therefore stays in sync.) Therefore, for all practical purposes, this would be self-contained, but as it strictly speaking would again be an incompatible change, pursuant to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#_exceptions I am hereby requesting an exception to bring this back to F44 following final freeze. Users would benefit from the latest changes, and it simplifies maintenance for me by having to deal with fewer versions (since, unlike GNOME proper, only the latest version is supported).

Furthermore, as this appears to be an issue that will keep arising, I am further requesting that this exception become permanent, in order to avoid future such requests. In essence, even though the libgedit-* packages provide libraries, as they are practically only dependencies of program(s) from the same project which is following its own schedule, I would like to be able to update them as if they were part of gedit itself.

A COPR is available for testing: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yselkowitz/gedit-latest/