On 22.10.19 08:23, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hello fellow Guix, > > I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the > heroic efforts of Amin Bandali <band...@gnu.org>, a recently appointed > co-maintainer of GNU IceCat, there now exists a preliminary version of > IceCat 68 that builds successfully and works on Trisquel. > > The bad news is that IceCat 68 has a new dependency: rust-cbindgen, > which itself depends on *245* other Rust libraries that are not yet > packaged for Guix. > > I'm very glad for "guix import crate -r", which was able to enumerate > this list of dependencies for me, and to auto-generate ~267 kilobytes of > new package definitions, but unfortunately it was only able to deduce > the license for about half of those. 131 out of 245 of these new > package definitions have (license #f). I'm not sure what's up with > that, but it might be necessary to manually determine the licenses of > these. > > Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 68.2 ESR today, along with a > security advisory describing flaws in previous versions of Firefox which > are fixed in 68.2. Many of these security flaws will affect IceCat 60, > but the 60 ESR branch is no longer supported upstream. This means that > we need to get IceCat 68 packaged ASAP. > > There are other urgent matters demanding my attention right now, so I > cannot afford to do all of this work myself. I can take care of > upgrading and debugging the IceCat 68 package itself -- I already have a > preliminary patch capable of generating the source tarball -- but I need > help packaging rust-cbindgen and its 245 dependencies. > > Who's willing to help? To get started: "guix import crate -r cbindgen".
Efraim made a proposal to overhaul the cargo-build-system. I think this could be pretty interesting for cbindgen. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00180.html I'm interested in a proper solution here, as Thunderbird needs also cbindgen to build. Reminds me that I should share the state of my Thunderbird "package"...
