Re: [PATCH] gnu: gzochi: Update to 0.10.

[Mark H Weaver]

Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If you have 'guix' installed, you can run:
>>
>>   guix build --system=i686-linux --keep-failed gzochi
>>
>> to reproduce the same build on your machine, and to leave the failed
>> build directory in /tmp/guix-build-* for further investigation.
>
> Neat! I'll give that a shot.
>
>
>> If you can fix the problem on i686, please let me know and I'd be glad
>> to test the same fix on armhf.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Will do. From a Guix perspective, what's better: A new gzochi release
> or a patch for Guix to apply against the 0.10 release?

Either one would be fine for Guix users.  However, for the sake of
non-Guix users and other distros, I would suggest making a new release.
I think it's important that upstream software releases should be
reasonably portable whenever feasible, especially to important
architectures like i686 and armhf.  What do you think?

      Mark