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From: Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 53238@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53238] [PATCH] gnu: tree: Remove stddata feature.
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:57:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee5bwdzw.fsf@laura> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee5bcqhy.fsf@nckx>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Olivier,
>
> Thanks again for tracking down this weird bug!
>
> Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via 写道:
>> This feature breaks some UNIX utilities.  Fix it by disabling 
>> the feature.
>
> Hm…  How long would we have to carry this fork?  My fear is we'd 
> do so indefinitely.

I've contacted the maintainer asking for removal of the feature in its
next release.  I'm not sure if this will have some impact.  Feel free to
do the same at <ice+tree@mama.indstate.edu>, maybe adding more weight
in the balance would help.

> How about creating a (possibly hidden) tree-without-stddata 
> package variant, to use as input to packages who currently break 
> with this feature enabled?  That lets us refcount the need for it.

It's more than just packages, it's also user scripts that can be broken
and believe me when I say that this is not an easy bug to track down ;-).

-- 
Olivier Dion
Polymtl




  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13 20:33 [bug#53238] [PATCH] gnu: tree: Remove stddata feature Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via
2022-01-13 20:44 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-01-13 20:57   ` Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via [this message]
2022-01-13 22:26     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-13 22:33     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-01-14  1:55       ` Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via
2022-01-14  2:05         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-01-15 14:37       ` bug#53238: " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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