On 2026-05-13, Nguyễn Gia Phong via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > On 2026-04-09 at 00:07+09:00, Nguyễn Gia Phong wrote: >> This branch is for queuing world rebuild changes >> not under the scope of any existing team (or under too many). >> >> They include adding delete-all-but to (guix build utils) >> <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/5312> >> and some package version bumps. >> >> Since this causes a complete world rebuild, I do not intend >> this to be an one-person effort. Please don't hesitate >> giving it an eye when y'all have the time. > > Now the branch is third in line, behind python-team and kde-team, > and python-team is close to merging (I think?), it's time > to finalize what's to be included in misc-world-rebuild. > > If you have been holding off any package update because it has > many dependents but has not been adopted by any team, doing that > in the next week or two might be a good idea.
I think ncurses-with-tinfo could be merged into regular ncurses with very low risks... which would trigger over 9000 rebuilds... originally introduced ncurses-with-tinfo around 2022 or so as some packages needed the tinfo parts and did not want to trigger a world rebuild at the time... and here we are, 4 years later. :) Should I submit a pull request for this against the misc-world-rebuild branch? It sort of makes sense at the same time, but possibly higher risk, to actually update ncurses... from 6.2.x (~2021) to 6.6.x (2025)? > My call for help still stand as well, please let me know if you want > to join the effort. IMHO in the future we need to figure out > the deligation for such regular updates to happen, as 300+ dependents > must include some adopted packages. Admittedly intimidated at guiding such a large rebuild, but could maybe help a bit!
