From: Bonface Munyoki K. <me@bonfacemunyoki.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Cc: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2020@thebird.nl>
Subject: What to do when a package is removed upstream
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:24:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8635vlwegf.fsf@bonfacemunyoki.com> (raw)
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Hi Guix!
What do you do when you want to use a package that
has already been removed from guix. An example is
that I have a legacy project that I help maintain
that still uses some old python2 packages. One of
them is python2-flask*. Right now, as a work
around, I manually write the package definitions
somewhere and build those; but I feel there are
better ways of doing that. What ways, if any, are
those?
* Removed in bce0165f7c818a2c2764ee1a12e1b3a4b642e0ad
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next reply other threads:[~2021-04-20 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-20 8:24 Bonface Munyoki K. [this message]
2021-04-20 8:35 ` What to do when a package is removed upstream Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-04-20 16:24 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-23 9:53 ` Bonface Munyoki K.
2021-04-23 12:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-04-23 13:26 ` Bonface Munyoki K.
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