Nitpick: the gtk3 update is in 01bf838 also (staging).

Regarding the shared-mime-info, it was always required, they just did not check for it during build. We have the following options:

1. Add it during build and ignore it at runtime as before.
2. Patch glib [1] → [2] → [3] → [4]

Rebasing onto master as it will be merged with GNOME 3.28.

EDIT: Accidentally wrote my message into wrong thread. Sorry.

This update causes reproducible (and fairly frequent) crashes on my system: #37696.

At a glance, I do not see any particularly suspicious changes https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/log/?h=2.36.11 but we can probably safely revert this until it is investigated.

I narrowed it down to 2.36.8, will need to do more detailed bisection later.

I created the following testcase:

with import <nixpkgs> { };
with pkgs;

let
  testSrc = writeText "test.c" ''
    #include <gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h>
    #include <glib.h>

    int main(int argc, char const *argv[]) {
        GError* err = NULL;
        if (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file("${nixos-artwork.wallpapers.gnome-dark}/share/artwork/gnome/Gnome_Dark.png", &err) == NULL) {
            g_error("%s", err->message);
            return 1;
        }

        return 0;
    }
  '';
in runCommand "gdk-pixbuf-loading-test" {
    buildInputs = [ gdk_pixbuf pkgconfig gcc ];
  } ''
    cc \
      $(pkg-config --cflags gdk-pixbuf-2.0) \
      $(pkg-config --libs gdk-pixbuf-2.0) \
      ${testSrc} -o test

    mkdir -p $out
    mv test $out/test

    $out/test
  ''

It works with 2.36.7 from the nixpkgs but when I add shared-mime-info to buildInputs:

--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, libtiff, libjpeg, libpng, libX11, gnome3
-, jasper, gobjectIntrospection, doCheck ? false }:
+, jasper, gobjectIntrospection, shared-mime-info, doCheck ? false }:
 
 let
   pname = "gdk-pixbuf";
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   # !!! We might want to factor out the gdk-pixbuf-xlib subpackage.
-  buildInputs = [ libX11 gobjectIntrospection ];
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 gobjectIntrospection shared-mime-info ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 

it fails.

It seems that the addition of shared-mime-info is the culprit, not the update.