From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gparted.
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 20:34:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3cmxc9g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160528161855.GC16585@jasmine>
Hello Leo,
Thank you for your quick response.
Leo Famulari writes:
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 05:52:16PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> I wonder if my ChangeLog-format commit message is OK this way.
>
> How about wording it as in bf50f7b5870? I don't think it's necessary to
> list the affected packages if it applies to the entire module.
Right. I had looked for a similar change but could not find one.
Thanks for pointing this one out.
Would it perhaps be better if I split the license prefix changes and
the addition of gparted in two separate patches?
>> Also, is it OK to push this patch for GParted? To avoid a name
>> collision for 'zlib' (both a license and a package), I added the
>> usual 'license:' prefix to the other packages in this file.
>
> Okay!
>
>> * gnu/packages/disk.scm (gparted): New variable.
>> (parted, fdisk, ddrescue, dosfstools, sdparm, idle3-tools): Avoid ambiguity by
>> adding a prefix to license symbols.
>
> It runs and finds my partitions! I didn't try to actually do anything...
I tested with a USB drive. I could create a new partition table and a
new partition.
>> + (arguments
>> + `(#:tests? #f ; Tests require a network connection.
>
> Is it just a small subset of the tests that require the network? Maybe
> we could disable only those tests?
It seems all tests need to download DTDs from various places on the
internet. The tests are related to the use of Scrollkeeper (which I
disabled).
As far as I can see there are no unit tests for the actual code.
>> + #:configure-flags '("--disable-scrollkeeper")))
>
> I'm not sure what this means. Can you leave a comment explaining it?
Of course! I'm not completely familiar with Scrollkeeper (although I
also wrote a package recipe for it), but what I understand is that it is
a program to manage various formats of documentation, and keep a central
database that links to various forms of documentation.
I added the following comment, but I think explaining the ins and outs of
Scrollkeeper goes too far. Is the comment good enough?
+ ;; We don't use scrollkeeper elsewhere, so disable updating the
+ ;; scrollkeeper database with documentation from GParted.
+ #:configure-flags '("--disable-scrollkeeper")))
>> + (inputs
>> + `(("util-linux" ,util-linux)
>
> Since util-linux is just a mish-mash of miscellaneous utilities, I like
> it when packagers leave a hint of what it's being used for, either in a
> comment, or by naming it after the used library, as in the jack-1
> package.
I followed the example of jack-1 here, because for GParted, it's also
libuuid it takes from the util-linux package.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-28 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-28 15:52 [PATCH] gnu: Add gparted Roel Janssen
2016-05-28 16:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 18:34 ` Roel Janssen [this message]
2016-05-28 19:15 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-28 19:28 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 19:41 ` Roel Janssen
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