From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Updating Vim Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:45:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20160309094544.GA28981@solar> References: <20160309091616.GA20945@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adags-0002mc-5y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 04:46:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adagi-00016k-NE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 04:45:57 -0500 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:48933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adagh-00016W-44 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 04:45:52 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160309091616.GA20945@debian-netbook> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 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: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > Our current vim package is 2.5 years old, and the current patch set on top of > it to bring it up to today is ~1500 patches. Interestingly, every. single. > commit. is tagged in git, so updating to a more recent release is rather easy. Well, it is not quite a release, I would say, if they simply tag every git commit and do not even make sure that the tests succeed each time. Normally, our policy in guix is to follow "official" upstream releases. Is there a compelling reason to update nevertheless? Andreas