On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:57:50AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > > > Following discussions on IRC, I’ve created a new ‘ungrafting’ branch > > that does nothing but ungraft things. > > > > The rationale is that grafts incur additional overhead when installing > > things (the time to create those grafts), so it’s good to clean them up > > once in a while. Ungrafting in a dedicated branch means we know the > > branch is “safe”, unlike more exploratory branches like ‘staging’ and > > ‘core-updates’. > > > > The plan is to start building it later today, and to hopefully be done > > in a week or so. > > This is a good initiative, but it seems to have stalled. Is there a > reason that it has not yet been merged into 'master'?
The ungrafting branch was merged into the staging branch. Unfortunately, the staging branch is moving very slowly. I perceive a lack of interest in working on it :/ I think that the ungrafting branch should have been kept separate and merged into master quickly.