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Subject: bug#32183: New =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98guix_?= =?UTF-8?Q?pull=E2=80=99?=
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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:13:30 +0100
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To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: 32183-done@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello,

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> skribis:

> This whole update to guix pull was somewhat a breaking change, but
> unfortunately it was very hard to imagine the repercussions (horrible
> bugs) down the line...
>
> Could it have been completely avoided by introducing it as such and
> forced people to reinstall/upgrade by reinstall (overwriting all files
> and invalidating the store etc.)?

Fundamentally, it=E2=80=99s just about moving files from ~/.config/guix to
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER, which I thought was fairly harmless.

Also, the bug was around for a few days.  Those who were away during
those days didn=E2=80=99t notice.

That said, I agree this was poorly handled.  One way to improve it would
be to have several people run the code on their machine before it goes
to master (it=E2=80=99s the kind of code for which we can hardly write unit
tests, and it=E2=80=99s single-use code.)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.