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Subject: [bug#29973] [PATCH] gnu: newsbeuter: Supersede.
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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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 (properties `((superseded .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 =E2=80=98newsbeuter=E2=80=99 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 =E2=80=9Cguix build -e=E2=80=9D.

My 2=C2=A2,
Ludo=E2=80=99.