Re: 03/09: gnu: util-linux: Update to 2.30.1.

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> mbakke@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) skribis:
>>
>>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch staging
>>> in repository guix.
>>>
>>> commit 66d4cd7978d41cfde5047f281dc17693bbd4610e
>>> Author: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>>> Date:   Sat Jul 29 18:34:15 2017 +0200
>>>
>>>     gnu: util-linux: Update to 2.30.1.
>>>     
>>>     * gnu/packages/linux.scm (util-linux): Update to 2.30.1.
>>
>> util-linux has ~2,100 dependents, so per the guidelines in the manual
>> (info "(guix) Submitting Patches"), we should perhaps push it to
>> ‘core-updates’ instead?
>
> I have kind of mentally adjusted the 1200 limit to ~1800 to account for
> the amount of new packages since that was written.  :-)
>
> 1800 would let us update things like dbus, glib and pango, where most of
> util-linux' 2100 dependents come from, which is why I "threw it in
> there".  But I guess our build farm has not scaled in accordion with the
> package count.

Even if our build farm had enough capacity, I hope we will also consider
the needs of those who wish to build everything locally, perhaps because
they do not consider the build farm sufficiently trustworthy.  FWIW, I'm
one of those people, and the amount of churn on 'master' is increasingly
uncomfortable for me.

       Mark