From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Agreeing on some "rules" for packaging. Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:36:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20130907083614.GA20740@debian> References: <521D1E38.9090604@gmail.com> <87sixhf3g8.fsf@karetnikov.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0I-0006eL-UH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:36:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0B-0008I1-HE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:36:26 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:59137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0B-0008HP-7t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:36:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sixhf3g8.fsf@karetnikov.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nikita Karetnikov Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:20:23PM +0400, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > make distclean && ./boostrap && ./configure && make && make check > before pushing, or will it be too tedious? Would "make" not be enough? Usually there is a warning message when there is a problem. > Also, I don’t like the ‘license:’ prefix. What about something like > ‘l:’? It’ll probably be even better to use ‘#:select’ when it’s > possible. Personally, I would do things the other way round and always use a prefix... Then I can simply write down the license of a package without checking whether it is already selected in the module. Andreas