On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 20:04 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > So, a while back I mentioned that Guix was present in Debian > "experimental": > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html > > And it was useable for a brief window of time, but was broken due to > some issues with guile-gnutls and guile-3.0: > > https://bugs.debian.org/964284 > > Somewhat deterred, I back-burnered it for a while while I focused on > other things... > > > Just a few days ago, I decided to attempt to get Guix into Debian's > next > release, and went with the fallback plan of building it against > guile-2.2, and a few disabled tests later... > > https://tracker.debian.org/guix > > > If all goes well, it should migrate to "bullseye" in a few > days. Hopefully in a few months "bullseye" will become Debian's > stable > release shipping with guix! Presumeably Guix will also eventually > find > itself in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives... > > > Now on Debian you should be able to: > > apt install guix > guix install dpkg > guix environment --ad-hoc dpkg -- dpkg -i ./guix_1.2.0-3_amd64.deb > > It is almost like symmetry! >
This is really awesome. I'm also grateful for fixing the guile-gnutls packaging in Debian. Thank you! Kind regards, Roel Janssen
