On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 16:11:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Mike, > > Mike Gerwitz skribis: [...] >> pkgblurbs.txt has also been replaced by rec/pkgblurbs.rec. > > Commit daf76c7cd54df428abc28d490747c7f83a844df0 changes > gnu-maintenance.scm to use the .rec files. Thanks for the heads-up. Thanks. I was planning to submit a patch this weekend, but you beat me to it. Sorry for the trouble! I'm glad to see that the change was pretty simple. >> If anyone here also knows of any other external systems pulling from >> womb, please lmk. I wasn't aware that anyone outside of maintainers@ >> used that repo, tbh. > > It’s used by ‘guix import gnu’ and ‘guix lint -c gnu-descriptions’ > currently. > > It’d be nice if synopses and descriptions in the Womb could contain > Texinfo markup. > > In fact, perhaps it’d make sense to reverse the roles, i.e., have the > Womb take (some of its) descriptions from Guix? `blub' in pkgblurbs (which is what `official-description' uses) is provided by package authors after they've been dubbed by rms. That is in turn used on gnu.org. Consequently, I think it's best to have such blurbs maintained independently of guix. What sort of Texinfo markup are you looking for, and are we talking about the same field? What field does guix use for the synopsis? Everything in rec/gnupackages.rec is handled by us at maintainers@, so we can do whatever we want there. Do you have a couple examples of what you think would be beneficial to pull form Guix? I'm certainly open to the idea where it makes sense; there's no sense in us duplicating effort within GNU unnecessarily. I'm also working on automating parts of our recordkeeping: in the next few weeks, Womb will have up-to-date version information automatically pulled from info-gnu release announcements; the FTP server; and a couple websites where necessary, though I'll be manually committing it for the first few months to verify that it is all working properly. So Guix might also be able to depend on rec/gnupackages.rec for checking for new releases as well, since unfortunately GNU doesn't mandate the use of the FTP server, or even info-gnu (so releases are all over the place). -- Mike Gerwitz