Ludovic Courtès (2016-02-11 12:11 +0300) wrote: > Hello! > > In current Guix master we have Texinfo 6.0 and 6.1. With 6.0 installed > in my profile, hitting ^ in the M-x guix-installed-packages buffer does > not mark Texinfo as a candidate for upgrade.
The fact that we have 2 versions is the answer. In Emacs UI a package is not considered to be obsolete if there is a package definition with the same name+version. That's why "texinfo 6.0" is green in the list, not red (as obsolete packages). I believe marking such packages as obsolete is not correct and it may be confusing. See <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2016-02-09#T909651>. For example, if a user makes a package for some old version, (s)he wants to use it and probably doesn't want it to be updated by accident (because it is obsolete). -- Alex
