bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
David Craven writes: >> Using accurate terminology on Wikipedia is an intention of mine, and >> changing the About page (and the FSF's endorsed distros page) not to >> call GuixSD a GNU/Linux distro would help in that regard, but it's >> arguably a petty issue so I don't intend to bother others w

bug#25177: Test failures don't cause some Python packages to fail

2016-12-24 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Leo Famulari writes: >> > Bah, I started a new one. >> >> Did this one get cancelled? Perhaps we should merge this to 'staging' >> and deal with any remaining failures when that is ready to be evaluated. > >

bug#25177: Test failures don't cause some Python packages to fail

2016-12-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Leo Famulari writes: > >> > Bah, I started a new one. > >> > >> Did this one get cancelled? Perhaps we should merge this to 'staging' > >

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 18:35:26 +0100, David Craven wrote: > Besides on most systems there is a lot more software than just what is > provided by GNU or Linux. If we want to be precise we can call it a > mostly POSIX distribution. It's a common misunderstanding that "GNU" refers to only to GNU pr

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes: > It would be better to be consistent with the home page and make clear > that GuixSD is a GNU distribution, with Linux-libre being the default > kernel for the foreseeable future. Here's a patch to the guix-artwork repo to make the

bug#25256: A lot of tests failed when building guix 0.12.0 from source

2016-12-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 06:56:24AM +, Alex Vong wrote: > Hello Guix, Hi! > Congratulation on guixsd moving to beta, maybe I should try it during > the holiday! > > A tarball with all the test logs archived is in the attachment. As > usual, the tests are run on Debian Testing with 'uname -a'

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread David Craven
Please change to the GNU distribution. Or alternatively if you are going to say a GNU distribution provide a link to or an explanation of what it means. Calling it a GNU distribution implies that there are more than one, please provide an example of another GNU distribution. A google search for GNU

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread David Craven
> Please change to the GNU distribution. Or alternatively if you are > going to say a GNU distribution provide a link to or an explanation of > what it means. To be clear what I mean with a description, it could be one of the following: a) A GNU distribution is a distribution compiled with the gc