Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> Hello, > > Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:33:54AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge: >> Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:16:14AM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> > With that in mind, ‘core-updates’ would effectively become the branch of >> > the ‘core-packages’ team: the branch where we update packages in these >> > files (primarily the toolchain and Guile), perhaps also (guix build >> > utils), and that’s all. >> > How does that sound? >> Sounds good, thanks to you and Maxim for thinking it through! > > is the current core-updates branch ready for building and merging? > I am looking at an issue: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68606 > that adds a patch (updating patchelf) that, as far as I understand, is > already available on core-updates. So I feel somewhat blocked for the > issue. > > The last merge was in spring of 2023, I think, and my patch updating wget > is lingering in the branch since last July. So I am afraid we are reenacting > the problems we had with the historic core-updates branch. It would be nice > to merge and to move the branch to its new purpose. > > Also, > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65200 > from last August is blocked by a core-updates merge (it should probably go > to the new-style core-updates branch, and would be the starting point of > working on bootstrapping from a newer GMP). Since patchelf is core material, if the rest of the series depend on that update, it should go to core-updates as well. Now is as good a time as any, since work has picked to get it into a mergeable state. -- Thanks, Maxim
