Early feedback on Guix Home

2021-06-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! As discussed on IRC a few days ago, I finally gave Guix Home a try and I like it! I thought I’d share my first impressions so we can try and address them in the process of getting it merged. First, I think one of the main reasons why it took me so long to try it out is that I was afraid o

Re: New signing key

2021-06-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Apologies for the delay! Eric Bavier skribis: > I've updated my GPG key on Savannah with a new signing subkey and uid. Done in 3694c0d4fee0f7faf130ecd9386ea45932a19543. In d1d2bf3eb6ba74b058969756a97a30aec7e0c4d1 I added your new key and renamed the old one, but perhaps we can just remove

Re: Debbugs user tags

2021-06-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > From f640132745b26b19bd163bc67482e8aea041881b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Chris Marusich > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:44:18 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] Document the use of Debbugs usertags. > > * doc/contributing.texi (Contributing): Update the short descrip

Re: Removal of Python 2?

2021-06-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> Python 2 is dead, dead, dead like the parrot and end-of-prolonged life >> as of more than 1 1/2 years. Anyhow, there might still be quite some >> software not ported to Python 3 after 10 years. So I'm afraid we need to >> keep Python 2. > > At this time, more tha

Re: Removal of Python 2?

2021-06-23 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 17:27, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > What we could do is start removing ‘python2-’ packages, especially those > with a non-negligible maintenance cost (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.). > We can move them to the Guix-Past channel if there’s interest. Starting with e13ab46c2

Re: New signing key

2021-06-23 Thread Eric Bavier
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 15:48 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies for the delay! > > Eric Bavier skribis: > > > I've updated my GPG key on Savannah with a new signing subkey and uid. > > Done in 3694c0d4fee0f7faf130ecd9386ea45932a19543. Thank you Thank you! > In > d1d2bf3eb6ba7

Re: Removal of Python 2?

2021-06-23 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo and Simon, Ludovic Courtès writes: > What we could do is start removing ‘python2-’ packages, especially those > with a non-negligible maintenance cost (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.). > We can move them to the Guix-Past channel if there’s interest. Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Wi

Re: python-distlib vs python-distlib/next

2021-06-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > This broke the *installation* (not the build) of other packages such > as python-pygenometracks. The reason is that the closure of > python-pygenometracks would include both python-distlib and > python-distlib/next. Guix would then prevent the installation of > p

Re: Authenticating maintenance.git

2021-06-23 Thread Chris Marusich
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Ludo, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> It looks like you’re missing a local ‘keyring’ branch for that repo, no? >> >> I think you need to run: >> >> git fetch >> git branch --track keyring > > This works, basically. Thank you! Although I was now able to run the

Re: Debbugs user tags

2021-06-23 Thread Chris Marusich
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> * doc/contributing.texi (Contributing): Update the short description of the >> "Tracking Bugs and Patches" chapter in the menu. >> (Tracking Bugs and Patches): Split this section into three new subsections, >> titled "Debbugs", "Debbugs User Interfaces", and "Debbugs Us

Re: Early feedback on Guix Home

2021-06-23 Thread Andrew Tropin
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > As discussed on IRC a few days ago, I finally gave Guix Home a try and I > like it! > > I thought I’d share my first impressions so we can try and address them > in the process of getting it merged. > > First, I think one of the main reasons why it took me so