From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 29973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29973] [PATCH] gnu: newsbeuter: Supersede.
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:13:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp0tdzyz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11e8b12c-4ab6-002e-6956-90cd5f7f6a36@tobias.gr> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Thu, 4 Jan 2018 20:42:29 +0100")
Heya!
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:
> What I meant to say was: there might be a better way to do this than a
> 100-line patch, but this is the best I can come up with.
>
> I don't really understand why
>
> (define-public foo (package ... (inputs `(("bar" ,bar)))))
> (define-public bar ...)
>
> appears to work, while
>
> (define-public foo (package ... (properties `((superseded . ,bar)))))
> (define-public bar ...)
>
> seems to fail.
Indeed.
Unless you really want to keep the ‘newsbeuter’ definition around, you
can also simply:
(define-public newsbeuter
(deprecated-package "newsbeuter" newswhatever))
The only value in keeping the old definition is that power users can
still install it with “guix build -e”.
My 2¢,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 2:21 [bug#29973] [PATCH] gnu: newsbeuter: Supersede Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-04 2:59 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-04 14:54 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-04 17:34 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-04 19:22 ` ng0
2018-01-04 19:23 ` ng0
2018-01-04 19:42 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-07 23:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-08 13:48 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-11 2:17 ` bug#29973: " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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