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From: Cyprien Nicolas <gentoo@×××××.fr>
To: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>, gentoo-lisp@l.g.o
Cc: amynka@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-lisp] Re: How to make dev & users happy about dev-scheme/guile
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:48:13
Message-Id: 608041fd-d5df-4cd6-d6c4-bbb4405d7e38@fulax.fr
1 On 30/06/2019 10:11, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 >
3 > Personally I would simply add a 2.2 slot for the new ebuild and start migrating
4 > deps to that one
5 >
6 > The same should be done for 1.8 slot:
7 > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/compat-guile18
8 >
9 > For reverse deps the policy would be to use always the newest supported version
10 > , allowing the progressively drop the slots that become not needed
11 >
12 > To coordinate this I would open a bug in bugs.gentoo.org and provide the patches
13 > there (or as scheme@g.o , that is the maintainer as listed in
14 > metadata.xml as I just checked, but I guess you don't need to resend all the
15 > mails as the only member of the project is amynka).
16 >
17 > Then, we can start adding the slotted ebuilds and checking reverse deps
18 >
19
20 I'm fine with that plan, I'll have to dig further about 1.8, as there
21 was a conflict with guilereadline libraries between 1.8 and 2.0.
22
23 I have a few issues to sort out with upstream first, then I'll open the
24 tracker bug, put patches and open a GitHub Pull Request as suggested by Amy.
25
26 Thanks for your advice.