Re: Repology and outdated packages

2022-06-07 Thread Maxime Devos
kias...@disroot.org schreef op di 07-06-2022 om 18:39 [+]: > So without demanding more maintainer time, for now I just convince myself > that: > - key toolchains such as Rust and Go are not always up to date, thus blocking > the > upgrade of several packages In my experience with antioxidan

Re: Repology and outdated packages

2022-06-07 Thread Maxime Devos
kias...@disroot.org schreef op di 07-06-2022 om 18:39 [+]: > - we package their dependencies separately (eg Rust crates, Go modules), > these are a significant portion of Guix that cannot be constantly updated > easily > - the Guix 1.4 release is coming soon so more time may be spent debuggin

Re: Teams

2022-06-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-06-04, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > As a first step I’d suggest collecting teams, setting up the email > aliases, and updating the website to show the existing teams. Here’s > a draft of three teams: I'm almost afraid to volunteer... but maybe architecture specific teams? If I were to put my

Re: Repology and outdated packages

2022-06-07 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, kias...@disroot.org writes: > I've been watching the Repology page for Guix and I've noticed that > we've dropped to 51% outdated packages > [https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix]. We used to be at 40% > outdated packages a few months ago. Repology hasn't been able to caught Guix packa

Repology and outdated packages

2022-06-07 Thread kiasoc5
Dear Guix, I've been watching the Repology page for Guix and I've noticed that we've dropped to 51% outdated packages [https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix]. We used to be at 40% outdated packages a few months ago. I know that rolling release distros don't have to have the latest packages bu

Re: Teams

2022-06-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 11:51:20AM +0200, zimoun wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > > > * R team > > Simon Tournier > > Ricardo Wurmus > > In addition, add me to: > > * Julia team I can do the Julia team too. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D

Re: emacs-guix (upstream) needs more love: a survey of repositories, homepage and issues

2022-06-07 Thread Kaelyn
Hi Ludo' Sorry for taking a while to send a reply! On Monday, May 30th, 2022 at 8:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Kaelyn, > > Kaelyn kaelyn.al...@protonmail.com skribis: > > > > First, we need to cherry-pick relevant commits from gitlab.com. Any > > > takers? If you Giovanni or anyone el

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > But there's one nervous-making issue this revealed; maradns embeds a > random number at build time ... allegedly for systems that don't have > /dev/urandom... see > maradns-3.5.0020/deadwood-3.5.0020/src/Makefile.ubuntu2004: > > # Since some systems may not hav

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Efraim, Efraim Flashner skribis: > As someone who has never used debbugs or emacs I find it daunting to try > to add it into my workflow. Currently I am subscribed to guix-patches > and I dump it into my guix-devel mailing list. I read my mail using mutt > and will just pipe the patches to gi

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-07 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
The upstream website says: "People like MaraDNS because it’s ... remarkably secure." [1] Since many distributions have the same issue, upstream could perhaps offer the patch as a build switch to enable a build-time seed only when needed. Sounds like the safest option. Maybe we could change

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:37:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cully skribis: > > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > >> If you are using Emacs, does debbugs.el have > >> shortcomings that make it a problem to review patches? > > To be clear, the question was directed pri

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-07 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 06 Jun 2022 at 23:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I can think of two ways to reassure committers: > > 1. By having clear reviewer check lists (you’d do that if you tick all > the boxes, you’re fine); As pointed earlier by Arun in «Public guix offload server» [1], this check list