From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: 'core-updates' summer 2019 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:43:45 -0400 Message-ID: <8736k9urxq.fsf@netris.org> References: <87v9xgytui.fsf@posteo.net> <87blz77rbo.fsf@devup.no> <87d0jl7ply.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3213mx8.fsf@devup.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44031) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcd0r-0000vi-PR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:48:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcd0p-0006oS-34 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:48:33 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:52054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcd0n-0006mZ-Vt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:48:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y3213mx8.fsf@devup.no> (Marius Bakke's message of "Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:21:55 +0200") 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" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Marius Bakke writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Marius Bakke skribis: >> >>> I suggest we 'freeze' core-updates next weekend and start working on >>> merging it. It has been sitting idle for way too long already! >> >> +1! > > The weekend is here already! But we are still missing glibc 2.29, so I > suggest we postpone the freeze a bit. There are also many TODOs and > XXXs that mention rebuild cycles, now is the time to fix those! > > We should also update linux-libre-headers to the latest LTS while at it. > Anything else? I noticed several months ago that the new commencement packages introduce many phases that return values other than #t. It would be nice to fix those. Mark