On Sat, 2021-04-24 at 03:46 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Léo,
> 
> Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 15:18 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > Léo and Raghav, you need to keep learning our workflow around
> > > security updates.  It's not okay to remove security patches and
> > > later
> > > update a package to a fixed version in a different commit. `git
> > > rebase` is the tool to learn for cases like this one.
> > 
> > I knew about this but I didnt feel like telling Raghav to do yet
> > another rebase. I felt like Raghav was taking on with so much
> > already.
> 
> This response is what native English speakers call a "red herring"
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring>;: something that misleads
> or
> distracts from a relevant or important question.
> 
> Why do I say that?  As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread,
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-04/msg00366.html
> 
> it appears that Raghav didn't actually remove the security fixes; it
> appears that *you* did.  Therefore, I fail to see how it could have
> been
> avoided by asking Raghav to do another rebase.
> 
> From the IRC logs cited in the message above, it appears that you
> took
> the liberty of modifying Raghav's "cosmetic changes" commits to also
> remove security fixes in the re-indented packages, while claiming in
> the
> summary lines that you were "ungraft[ing]" cairo and glib.
> 
>   
> https://git.sr.ht/~lle-bout/guix/commit/a045a48dd961f0c5c3d536dcc3fd21d9c08d2d50
>   
> https://git.sr.ht/~lle-bout/guix/commit/6477daa338fbf1c9edacfc3690aca77cacfe0008
> 
> Can you please explain what went wrong here?
> 
>       Thanks,
>         Mark
> 

Hello Mark,

I will not answer anything to you anymore because I feel like you do
not write messages in a constructive way.

Léo