Re: [bug#74231] emacs-git-email: Guix policy for dealing with abandoned packages with active forks

2024-11-11 Thread Liam Hupfer
Cayetano Santos via Guix-patches via writes: > I’m just curious about whether guix has a policy concerning this kind of > situation, before reviewing your patch (#74231), as there might have > consequences in the most general case. Namely, it is the case of > patching a package definition, redire

Expired Disarchive certificate

2024-11-11 Thread Clark Fischer
Good morning, I recently attempted to lint a package declaration I've been working on, and it warned about disarchive.guix.gnu.org's SSL certificate. Seems that it expired on October 12, as best as I can tell. Fortunately, `lookup-disarchive-spec' uses other mirrors, so linting works, though I wi

Re: On "next" packages and related confusions.

2024-11-11 Thread Philip McGrath
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, at 7:50 PM, Divya Ranjan wrote: > > I think it would be appropriate if each "next" package had a code comment, > > or perhaps an addendum to its package description, describing how it > > relates to the main packaged version. > > I think the whole "next" category is problem

Re: On "next" packages and related confusions.

2024-11-11 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello Ryan, > I think it would be appropriate if each "next" package had a code comment, or > perhaps an addendum to its package description, describing how it relates to > the main packaged version. I think the whole "next" category is problematic. Why not just have a version number of that p

On "next" packages and related confusions.

2024-11-11 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello, As someone who’s been recently involved in packaging some software for GNU Guix I’m confused with certain choices, mostly with the [package]-next category. What should these next packages be? "More recent" than the non-next package? If so, how much more recent? One release ahead? Or is i

Re: Upgrading Guix packages website in Guix infrastructure

2024-11-11 Thread Christopher Baines
Luis Felipe writes: > On 4/11/24 22:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Luis Felipe skribis: >> >>> Hi guix, >>> >>> The software behind https://packages.guix.gnu.org/, Guix Packages >>> Website,¹ has been updated with the following changes: >> Yay! >> >> Could you send a patch against th

Re: Shepherd 1.0.0rc1 available for testing!

2024-11-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Thanks for the improved Shepherd! One issue so far: Ludovic Courtès writes: > The tarball and signature are available at: > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.0rc1.tar.gz > SHA256: 3ce5d60e528d4cfb282b1f271a601256395b28f16e41be6052cf5945f687b004 > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu

Please take the User and Contributor survey

2024-11-11 Thread Steve George
Hi, If you've a few minutes please take the User and Contributor survey: https://guix.limesurvey.net/ If you select 'Contributor' there's a section for using Guix (I'm sure we all use Guix!) and then an additional section for Contributors. If you decide not to complete all questions that's fi

Re: On "next" packages and related confusions.

2024-11-11 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Original Message On 11/11/24 9:10 AM, Divya Ranjan wrote: > Hello, > > As someone who’s been recently involved in packaging some software for GNU > Guix I’m confused with certain choices, mostly with the [package]-next > category. What should these next packages be? As y

[Shepherd] Shutdown and reboot entries in utmp?

2024-11-11 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, Does the GNU Shepherd add entries for shutdowns and reboots to utmp? [1] Kind regards Felix P.S. I'd like to teach guile-pam some new tricks. [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-update-utmp.service.8.html

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

2024-11-11 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, is there another way to answer the questions for those who block JavaScript or use EWW browser? Maybe you could send me the questions in an e-mail? -- Christopher Howard