On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/flex.scm (flex-2.6.1): New variable.
> 
> This is newer than what we currently have (2.6.0). I know it's late in
> the core-updates cycle, but maybe we can squeeze in a flex upgrade?

It's also not the latest upstream release, which is 2.6.2. Why use this
particular version instead of the latest?