bug#51346: [PATCH 0/1 core-updates-frozen] Rework swap device to add dependencies and flags

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:

> Thanks for the review!  Here is hopefully the last patchset, which
> addresses most of the issues.
>
> I decided not to merge the doc changes with the first commit as it
> also describes swap flags, but that's just a matter of taste I
> suppose.
>
> Moved the deprecation warning that I originally put in
> gnu/services/base.scm (swap-service) to a sanitizer of swap-devices in
> its own commit, although it only reports the location of the
> (operating-system) syntax use, not of the field itself (but that is
> what I also noticed for other deprecation warnings, alas).  I marked
> the field as delayed, otherwise I was getting a lot of warnings while
> testing rather than the only one I'm getting now.

I suppose this can be addressed with this newfangled
‘define-with-syntax-properties’, right?  :-)

> Fixed the swap-device dependency filtering to silently ignore
> old-style values rather than erroring out.
>
> Overall, I cleaned up all the rogue TABs I had inserted!
> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) for our Emacs readers at home.
> This should not happen any more as I have set whitespace-mode to an
> aggressive red highlighting for TAB characters.

Nice.  Note that ‘.dir-locals.el’ is supposed to set that; not sure why
it didn’t work for you.

> And finally, I changed the examples at the end to simply be @lisp
> blocks, outside of a table.
>
> Josselin Poiret (5):
>   gnu: system: Rework swap space support, add dependencies.
>   gnu: system: Warn about swap-devices format change
>   gnu: system: Add swap flags.
>   gnu: system: Filter out boot dependencies from swap-space.
>   doc: Add new Swap Space section.

Applied on ‘master’, which I plan to merge into ‘core-updates-frozen’
shortly.

Thank you!

Ludo’.