Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis: > On 2021-03-17, Léo Le Bouter wrote: >> Just as a reminder siding with vagrantc here: >> >> We must ensure the Debian 'guix' package can still work and upgrade >> from it's installed version, so ensure that removing gzip doesnt break >> initial 'guix pull' with it. > > ... and I would expect this version to ship in Debian for another ~3-5 > years, unless it gets removed from Debian bullseye before the upcoming > (real soon now) release! > > But if lzip substitutes are still supported, I *think* guix 1.2.0 as > packaged in Debian still supports that, at least. > > Dropping both gzip and lzip would be unfortunate; I don't think it would > be trivial to backport the zstd patches to guix 1.2.0, as it also > depends on guile-zstd?
Indeed. But don’t worry: we wouldn’t drop both gzip and lzip at once! Ludo’.
