From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add re2. Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:33:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87shu1x7jo.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87eg5qgp2r.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20160816175910.GB1260@jasmine> <87r39nzntl.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87bn0rzanb.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20160818204310.GD2393@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baizY-0001Iu-Ua for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baizT-00026b-UD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:44 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:40722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baizR-00022X-LB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160818204310.GD2393@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > When moving packages around, all users of the package need to have their > module imports updated. Copyright attribution must be carefully handled. > And merging the various *-updates branches into master and vice versa > becomes more complicated and prone to error. Perhaps it makes sense to schedule package moves just after big merges (e.g. before cutting a new core-updates branch). Or have them in separate short-lived branches to give users (and Hydra, considering the recent tcsh evaluation failure) some time to test and prepare. My 2 NOK, Marius