Re: Updates to be done

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Which of these can be done on master, and which should be done only on
> core-updates?
>
> gnu/packages/groff.scm:32:3: note: using groff-1.22.1 but groff-1.22.2 is 
> available upstream
> gnu/packages/cdrom.scm:89:3: note: using xorriso-1.2.4 but xorriso-1.2.8 is 
> available upstream
> gnu/packages/wdiff.scm:28:3: note: using wdiff-1.1.2 but wdiff-1.2.1 is 
> available upstream
> gnu/packages/smalltalk.scm:27:3: note: using smalltalk-3.2.4 but 
> smalltalk-3.2.5 is available upstream
> gnu/packages/nano.scm:29:3: note: using nano-2.2.6 but nano-2.3.2 is 
> available upstream
> gnu/packages/gnupg.scm:35:3: note: using libgpg-error-1.10 but 
> libgpg-error-1.11 is available upstream
> gnu/packages/gnupg.scm:82:3: note: using libassuan-2.0.3 but libassuan-2.1.0 
> is available upstream
> gnu/packages/help2man.scm:27:3: note: using help2man-1.40.8 but 
> help2man-1.41.2 is available upstream
> gnu/packages/base.scm:931:34: note: using guile-2.0.7 but guile-2.0.9 is 
> available upstream

All these can be done in master.

I may integrate my gnupdate code for Nixpkgs so we can automate this a
bit.

> Also, is there a reason not to update guile to 2.0.9 in core-updates?

Actually I just updated it in master.  In core-updates, we’ll change
guile-2.0/fixed to use 2.0.9 as well.

Ludo’.