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Cc: Pjotr Prins , help-guix@gnu.org Subject: Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream In-reply-to: <8635vlwegf.fsf@bonfacemunyoki.com> BIMI-Selector: v=BIMI1; s=default; Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:35:10 +0200 Message-ID: <8735vle4ld.fsf@nckx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a02:c205:2020:6054::1; envelope-from=me@tobias.gr; helo=tobias.gr X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1618908061; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=MMlyVV6/0LK2BKvBmCQp86r0DtKUS2IUY02MuIbVa4U=; b=NxcHWSlTQptBDyAFIEFXy/d9UxEgmSYcgBqrS8ocJoTOfRaCNjJpfeYRDyrW00KGV06WFB 0Hd26SE+vUzr0dDB6V3ha8ikHzsDc7hVG65gNZxLdSDLd+8TbzeoQ2FuqYELR1dqp62iNY hzBHAtNrIR7axZgMEaA2j+8XVZFjQY4ZPro741hGtj61D7qMSgcIVI/JxX5yDiID0gTchx y2dDNzq7QDq+NaRrFlDhjPfA2T4yMjYsRp8r6sHM1NJ7oqKe+D2o8XUWyzIuDYReaOQ4ST E/qDqeZ/QhztL8EEX0d2O7CyrDPtW3OkVcBbOO6Xj5ZzWX7xKwlonLS8YZEGMQ== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1618908061; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=g50IIu38gpx4+9zS2wQDqgTx0Yzu8dLw2JFVQtrUdUUi9tTxFO3JKgC8dZeeDz87bnSrFy DZAJTXICDaiJAfXL1mKR+BCIQOhM77QjwG1k74oHG/a7VHlVHkg6qmhWoyo3crF31mh584 PMOBF6pbIEPAZHMbqQ4sBkR4G3NNSL1l881daan5c6XVJR/3Ix3O4izWA0L+U2X1rPMoNU l5GLhR6bXNiCobKTCu4G5Hw4YjNMeZnrTSGHGYijmzKoKQx805M4nQefRAl3ILFN+Sg29x LKpzxMqbvWfi8xB+SEJYwFRnXA6YUHVqEjrOkN1PlkIAkK1lnsxugn6xDp0zPQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=tobias.gr header.s=2018 header.b="IizE/yt6"; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.74 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=tobias.gr header.s=2018 header.b="IizE/yt6"; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=tobias.gr; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 31E9218C58 X-Spam-Score: -4.74 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: HFqJxNA7em9g --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bonface, Bonface Munyoki K. writes: > 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? You can use an =E2=80=98inferior=E2=80=99[0] Guix if you don't mind the ent= ire=20 closure of python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly=20 including incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities. I don't know what their inclusion & maintenance criteria are, but=20 another approach is to add the removed packages to the=20 guix-past[1] channel. Kind regards, T G-R [0]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Inferiors.html [1]: https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIMEARYKACsWIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCYH6SPg0cbWVAdG9iaWFz LmdyAAoJEA2w/4hPVW152rIA/juSUW1qMGlAdhJyusYBJ12g/horoMd/7BAz0Dce 5WFCAP9LULi7QxXvcsJAd7kqhVUzj8IJZHmRFKoHmGCZOAi8DA== =ssLw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--