Hi John,

thanks for your patches. I also upgraded xmonad locally (see
attached patch), but I didn’t need the version bumps/new packages
(i.e. xmonad’s test suite builds and runs fine). Are they really
necessary?

> Note that this new version has breaking configuration changes, detailed in their announcement: https://xmonad.org/news/2021/10/27/xmonad-0-17-0.html  Is that worth a news entry for guix pull? It has been a long time since xmonad released a new version, for those that stay on the stable release.
I was also hesitant to push the new version for this reason. Additionally
xmonad is part of Stackage, which we use where possible. How about adding
a xmonad-next package instead and make the switch when Stackage includes
the new version?

Cheers,
Lars