From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Expat and libxslt changes for core-updates Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:49:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20160611004927.GA1242@jasmine> References: <20160608101016.GA20565@debian-netbook> <20160609164317.GA5540@jasmine> <20160609231935.GA14894@jasmine> <87bn3919oa.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57751) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBX7Q-0003Nc-Ir for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:49:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBX7L-0004sJ-Ix for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:49:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bn3919oa.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 02:59:49PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > The merge will probably be messy... > > We should leave it to you, to minimize breakage. Okay, should I do it today or is core-updates frozen? > > Off-topic: A regular package and a grafted package on master, and an > > updated version of the package on core-updates... this is getting very > > complicated and we should try our best to avoid such tangled situations > > in the future. > > Do you think it would help to delay such upgrades in ‘core-updates’ > until the time where ‘core-updates’ is getting ready for merge? I don't know if there is a great solution; I think this is a really perverse case. I think of core-updates as the place to put these sorts of changes. If we were to decide to delay the changes, we'd all have our own private core-updates forks, and then we'd probably duplicate work and forget about things. What do you think? If anybody else feels burdened by this as I do, your ideas are very welcome :)