From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frederick Muriithi Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: Add python-typing Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 20:04:24 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1486490441-3995-1-git-send-email-fredmanglis@gmail.com> <1486490441-3995-5-git-send-email-fredmanglis@gmail.com> <8760kkb96b.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs9G-0002VM-M4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:04:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs9F-0000OL-VI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:04:46 -0500 Received: from mail-yb0-x242.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c09::242]:36854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs9F-0000OD-R8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:04:45 -0500 Received: by mail-yb0-x242.google.com with SMTP id o65so389817ybo.3 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:04:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8760kkb96b.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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 On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: > > If this is provided by the standard library as this link implies, why do > we need this package? Is it a python2 backport? In that case it should > be named "python2-typing" and you'll need to specify #:python as argument. > It is a backport for python versions older than 3.5 I tried building one of the packages that indicated typing as a dependency, and it built without typing being an input. I will ignore this package for now, and resubmit it at a later time, if necessary when I get to the next batch of packages that rely on the current series -- Frederick M. Muriithi