History of gnome-power-manager? and gnome/glib2 version separation?

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

sysutils/gnome-power-manager doesn't build due to recent glib2 update.
However, looking more closely, it's still (intentionally) on version 
2.24 while the rest of gnome is on 2.26.  The gnome metapkg also has 
2.26 commented out without documenting why.

So first, does anybody know why?

Secondly -
Should glib2 be getting constantly bumped to the next version (currently 
at 2.32) while gnome wallows at 2.26?  That's the primary cause of the 
package failure, glib2 mismatch.

Shouldn't these be upgraded together?

Or to ask a related question: Is there a technical reason gnome is still 
at 2.24?

Is there a strategy for glib2 version updates - or is it just 
enthusiasm?  The last bump to 2.32 was pretty painful, how necessary was 
that?  I felt bad for dholland.


John