diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/src/lib.rs b/gdk-pixbuf/src/lib.rs
index 068b1eb54dbf..1d662e697f2c 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/src/lib.rs
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // Take a look at the license at the top of the repository in the LICENSE file.
 
+#![allow(clippy::manual_c_str_literals)]
 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_cfg))]
 #![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
 
@@ -8,7 +9,6 @@ pub use gio;
 pub use glib;
 
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-#[allow(clippy::manual_c_str_literals)]
 mod auto;
 
 pub mod subclass;
diff --git a/glib/src/gobject/binding_group.rs b/glib/src/gobject/binding_group.rs
index 52800e08a7dd..d71f4b9fd151 100644
--- a/glib/src/gobject/binding_group.rs
+++ b/glib/src/gobject/binding_group.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pub struct BindingGroupBuilder<'a> {
     transform_from: TransformFn,
 }
 
-impl<'a> fmt::Debug for BindingGroupBuilder<'a> {
+impl fmt::Debug for BindingGroupBuilder<'_> {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
         f.debug_struct("BindingGroupBuilder")
             .field("group", &self.group)
diff --git a/glib/src/lib.rs b/glib/src/lib.rs
index 382a3d528894..a4ed600ef0f1 100644
--- a/glib/src/lib.rs
+++ b/glib/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_cfg))]
 #![allow(clippy::missing_safety_doc)]
+#![allow(clippy::manual_c_str_literals)]
 #![allow(renamed_and_removed_lints)]
 // Override docs references to point to locally generated docs
 // rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
diff --git a/glib/tests/unicollate.rs b/glib/tests/unicollate.rs
index 9801ea63703f..98759bd9902d 100644
--- a/glib/tests/unicollate.rs
+++ b/glib/tests/unicollate.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ fn init() {
     // Make sure that all tests below are running with the system
     // locale and not the "C" locale.
     ONCE.call_once(|| unsafe {
-        libc::setlocale(libc::LC_ALL, b"\0".as_ptr() as *const _);
+        libc::setlocale(libc::LC_ALL, c"".as_ptr() as *const _);
     });
 }