Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:06:43PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote: > > I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided to > > go the first route, I would probably use Guix. Would such a > > contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, which > > would add some c

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-24 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Mike, Mike Gerwitz writes: > There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro > Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it > was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer > versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-24 Thread Eric Bavier
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:42:51 -0400 Mike Gerwitz wrote: > There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro > Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it > was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer > versions of libraries they package.[0]

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 00:20:34 +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > Regardless of whether older versions of libraries would be accepted > upstream, you can also keep them in a separate repository or directory > and use the environment variable GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to include them in Right, I just want my e

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Roel Janssen
Mike Gerwitz writes: > There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro > Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it > was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer > versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained fork of >

On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Mike Gerwitz
There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained fork of the game, but it's quite differen