Re: Guix in Debian!

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

This.  Is.  Huge.

THANK YOU for all your hard work here!

I wrote out why I think this is big news:

  https://octodon.social/@cwebber/105612900114421037

Vagrant Cascadian writes:

> So, a while back I mentioned that Guix was present in Debian
> "experimental":
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html
>
> And it was useable for a brief window of time, but was broken due to
> some issues with guile-gnutls and guile-3.0:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/964284
>
> Somewhat deterred, I back-burnered it for a while while I focused on
> other things...
>
>
> Just a few days ago, I decided to attempt to get Guix into Debian's next
> release, and went with the fallback plan of building it against
> guile-2.2, and a few disabled tests later...
>
>   https://tracker.debian.org/guix
>
>
> If all goes well, it should migrate to "bullseye" in a few
> days. Hopefully in a few months "bullseye" will become Debian's stable
> release shipping with guix! Presumeably Guix will also eventually find
> itself in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives...
>
>
> Now on Debian you should be able to:
>
>   apt install guix
>   guix install dpkg
>   guix environment --ad-hoc dpkg -- dpkg -i ./guix_1.2.0-3_amd64.deb
>
> It is almost like symmetry!
>
>
> Thanks for all the help and encouragement along the way, everyone!
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant