From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: "Bonface Munyoki K." <me@bonfacemunyoki.com>,
help-guix@gnu.org, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2020@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:24:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH8AJRb1W3e6f1Tb@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735vle4ld.fsf@nckx>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:35:10AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't mind the entire closure of
> python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly including
> incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities.
>
> I don't know what their inclusion & maintenance criteria are, but another
> approach is to add the removed packages to the guix-past[1] channel.
It might be nice to document these options somehow.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-20 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-20 8:24 What to do when a package is removed upstream Bonface Munyoki K.
2021-04-20 8:35 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-04-20 16:24 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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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