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[bug#61829] [PATCH 01/11] gnu: Purge pre-1.3.0 deprecated packages.
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Simon Tournier |
Subject: |
[bug#61829] [PATCH 01/11] gnu: Purge pre-1.3.0 deprecated packages. |
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Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:57:43 +0100 |
Hi Bruno,
On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 at 02:29, Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu> wrote:
> This was informally discussed in #guix with Ludovic as a follow-up to
> the services cleanup. (tracked at #61789)
Ah cool!
> The idea is to shed pre-1.3.0 deprecated code from Guix to reduce the
> overall maintenance burden. Given the age of the release and the warnings, I
> assume
> most users/maintainers would have taken notice and applied updates.
> (no actual package definitions have been removed, only their old aliases)
>
> These variables were found by grep + git blame'ing the files and combing the
> output
> to ensure that only pre-1.3.0 variables were considered.
Well, I have nothing for the removal, only with the process. Somehow,
we are missing a policy for such, IMHO. And that’s not related to this
series. :-)
Since the variables are deprecated since a very long time, yeah it
sounds reasonable to remove them.
Cheers,
simon