[PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Use version 6.1 by default.

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-19 00:11 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-17 11:52 +0300) wrote:
[...]
>>> I guess most of us are using Texinfo 6.1 now and won’t notice.
>>
>> Oh, I've never noticed that I use 6.0.  It's because I update my
>> profiles using "guix package --manifest" facility and:
>>
>>   (@ (gnu packages texinfo) texinfo) gives Texinfo 6.0
>>
>> Is there a reason why we keep so many versions of texinfo?  In
>> particular why there is ‘texinfo-6.1’ variable, while ‘texinfo’ is still
>> 6.0?
>
> It’s just that the upgrade wuold trigger a full rebuild.
>
> We should replace 6.0 with 6.1 in ‘core-updates’.  Would you like to
> take care of it?

If you mean to make a patch for this update, then it is attached.  But
if you mean to rebuild the world, and to check if anything fails, then I
wouldn't like to give so much care to this, sorry.  So if it's OK to
commit this patch to core-updates without testing, then I will gladly do
this :-)

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