Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > 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).
Oh, to me, ^ meant “upgrade”, like ‘guix package -u’ but only taking into account the version number (‘guix package -u’ upgrades if the store file name differs, even if the version number is the same.) > 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>. I think we need a different solution for packages that have several series. For instance, we could have: (define gnupg-2.0 (package … (properties `((series . "2.0"))))) and that would lead the various UIs to upgrade only to a package whose version prefix is “2.0”. WDYT? Ludo’.
