Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis: > Andreas Enge <[email protected]> writes: > >> andreas pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 075c3ebd2dc3d8223e23025ceb5026810dfaa98d >> Author: Andreas Enge <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun Oct 18 12:20:02 2015 +0200 >> >> gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0. > > To avoid unnecessary rebuilds on hydra, I reverted this commit on > master, and instead pushed it to the 'dbus-update' branch, which will > hopefully be merged soon.
We’re talking of ~150 dependent packages, which to me sounded OK¹. If we delay obvious changes like this too much, the risk is to end up with upgrade-everything branches that take ages to get merged (what is happening with ‘dbus-update’.) The Nixpkgs folks have a ‘staging’ branch for changes that cause mass rebuilds but are well tested, such that they can be merged into ‘master’ anytime². Perhaps something we should do as well? Ludo’. ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00653.html ² http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447
