From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: Fwd: 16/35: gnu: r-ggplot2: Update to 2.2.0. Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:48:17 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20161229204925.E8B3B2201C9@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <9f559f47-67a2-8a58-79c3-df959d9ac30d@uq.edu.au> <87ziiiyx07.fsf@elephly.net> <87wpdmypcx.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVd6s-0004mL-5u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:48:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVd6o-000370-U8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:48:30 -0500 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:48833 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVd6o-00036J-98 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:48:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wpdmypcx.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" On 23/01/17 21:42, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ben Woodcroft writes: > [..] >> I wonder if the importer could import the previous version again and >> compare to those, rather than just the current definition to avoid other >> situations like this. > Would this have helped in this instance? Did the previous version > *depend* on r-svglite? If it did, how could an editor like me have > known that it was still valuable as an optional input? AIUI, it has always been optional. But I take your point anyway - a comment the first time would have been best. ben