Vincent,

Thank you!

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Vincent Legoll 写道：
> * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (cgit)[native-inputs]: New 
> field.

This is no new field.  Neither are those of mailutils, iwd, or 
graphviz!

Please rewrite all commit messages as either

  * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (cgit)[inputs]: Move groff &
  python-docutils from here…
  [native-inputs]: …to this new field.

or

  * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (cgit)[inputs]: Move groff &
  python-docutils from here…
  [native-inputs]: …to here.

although to be honest, I only ever use the latter format unless 
I'm feeling particularly pedantic.

> [inputs]: Move groff & python-docutils to native-inputs.

If we run

  $ guix gc --references `guix build cgit`

we can see that both groff and python-docutils are part of cgit's 
closure.  This means they must to be able to run… at run time :-o 
Oh dear.

python-docutils's ‘rst2html.py’ is required by cgit's 
/lib/cgit/filters/html-converters/rst2html, and groff itself by 
cgit's /lib/cgit/filters/html-converters/man2html.  Both of these 
uses look legitimate to me: they weren't accidentally captured by 
a stray environment variable or overzealous wrapper.

Now, it's still possible that either or both of these dependents 
must *also* run at build time, and for that they would need to be 
native indeed.  Unfortunately:

  $ guix build cgit --target=mips64el-linux-gnu
  guix build: error: gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm:2950:2:
  python-docutils@0.16: build system `python' does not support 
  cross
  builds

I could ignore that and pretend that all Python packages are 
safely architecture-independent (they're not) to continue 
investigating, but I'm out of time.

I don't think this particular patch adds any value at this time, 
so let's drop it.

The rest LGTM!

Kind regards,

T G-R