Hi! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: [...] >> It was too early back then but I think we could consider dropping it >> after 1.4.0 is out, announcing it in advance. > > Sounds good to me. The maintainers went ahead and announced it, thumbs up! It might also be worth emailing info-guix? >> To those users still running a pre-1.1.0 daemon lacking lzip support¹, >> things will just break, or at least they won’t get newer substitutes. >> It’s been almost 2 years since 1.1.0 was released though. > > I’ll admit that back then I had neglected to upgrade the shared daemon > at the MDC, missing the change to different compression types. A > considerable chunk of the demand for gzip substitutes then could have > been due to the MDC. I think it’s understandable; it’s an invisible component, after all. A few weeks ago I discovered that a colleague of mine was running guix-daemon from 0.15.0… > Printing a warning is a good way to get people’s attention, so I’m all > for it to prepare for the big break. Mathieu did that in f9c62b23cc88541756656b3ec602ce987828d906, which should help! Ludo’.
