From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Planning for the next release Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:56:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpb0tmhc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> <20170403002828.GA2288@jasmine> <87pogtsxpt.fsf@gnu.org> <20170403175200.GA2866@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]:53229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvN4h-0007cz-66 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:56:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvN4c-0007Wy-II for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:56:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170403175200.GA2866@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2017 13:52:00 -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 Leo Famulari skribis: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> > I just pushed a tzdata update to a new staging branch. Let's build and >> > merge this branch before the next release. >>=20 >> We can do that, but should it be a blocker? Anyway, let=E2=80=99s try a= nd we=E2=80=99ll >> see. >>=20 >> BTW: >>=20 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l -e '(@@ (gnu packages base) tzdata)' >> Building the following 239 packages would ensure 442 dependent packages = are rebuilt >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > It used to be about ~1400 :) Right, definitely an improvement! >> I was expecting to see fewer packages depending on this one since >> 3ffaec136fab017e6cc094287da207cf30f05974. Perhaps in the =E2=80=98stagi= ng=E2=80=99 >> branch we should migrate a few more packages to =E2=80=98tzdata-2017a=E2= =80=99? > > The bulk of it comes through libical, so I'm not sure we can get it > under 300 rebuilds without removing tzdata from libical. > > Having said that, I'm not sure if libical even needs a run-time > reference to tzdata. At least, we didn't notice that it was missing for > ~1 year: > > Heh, indeed. I guess we can address it at a later stage, whenever is convenient. Ludo=E2=80=99.