On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:20:47PM +0100, Roel Janssen wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 12:45 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 11:19:06PM +0100, Roel Janssen wrote:
> > > Dear Guix,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to update python-statsmodels because I'm packaging
> > > something
> > > that requires a newer version.
> > > 
> > > The patch is trivial, but I'm unsure whether it would trigger too
> > > many
> > > rebuilds.  How do I check this?
> > 
> > 'guix refresh --list-dependent python-statsmodels' will give you a
> > list of leaf
> > packages affected by this package. As a python package, you should
> > also
> > check the python2- variant, so 'guix refresh -l python-statsmodels
> > python2-statsmodels'
> > 
> 
> Thanks!  Is my conclusion correct that, by updating python-statsmodels
> (and thus python2-statsmodels), only "ribodiff" will be rebuilt?  And
> therefore, the update can be pushed to master directly?

Yep, straight to master. Although if ribodiff builds before your patch
and then doesn't after you're on the hook to fix it :)

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