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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-to: Ryan Prior From: Ryan Prior via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.13 X-Spam-Score: -3.13 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 140715CC10 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: jMWV8HoXuYQF -------- Original Message -------- On 11/11/24 9:10 AM, Divya Ranjan wrote: > Hello, > =20 > As someone who=E2=80=99s been recently involved in packaging some softwa= re for GNU Guix I=E2=80=99m confused with certain choices, mostly with the = [package]-next category. What should these next packages be? As your intuition hints, "next" is arbitrary. It indicates somebody's judge= ment that it would be inappropriate to update the main package to that vers= ion, perhaps because of instability or perhaps because the update would req= uire a lot of rebuilds. I think it would be appropriate if each "next" package had a code comment, = or perhaps an addendum to its package description, describing how it relate= s to the main packaged version. In case you don't know about "--with-latest", that's the supported way to i= nstall the latest master branch of a package. "-next" packages are not mean= t to closely track master.