From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Superseded packages Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87bmzujhn7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160904021256.GA21539@jasmine> <874m5vvmi8.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20160904184416.GB29947@jasmine> <87d1kirc4r.fsf@gnu.org> <87vay8r9r3.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160910172514.GA28562@jasmine> <87a8felfb9.fsf@gnu.org> <20160911151945.GB6400@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37750) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjBX1-0004Z5-Ls for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:39:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjBWx-000381-IT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:39:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160911151945.GB6400@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:19:45 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> > I'm not sure about Attic / Borg. Superseding attic will break >> > automation, although I did that when I made letsencrypt inherit from >> > certbot. Also, the authors are different. Advice? >>=20 >> I would make Borg supersede Attic. However, if Borg does not provide, >> say, an =E2=80=98attic=E2=80=99 command, which would make it incompatibl= e by default, we >> may want to change the Borg package to include such a command. > > There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format. > Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion > of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias > would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail. Then I don=E2=80=99t know. Either we mark Attic as superseded by Borg anyw= ay, or we need another mechanism to mark a package as =E2=80=9Cdiscouraged=E2= =80=9D? Ludo=E2=80=99.