Hi Maxim, On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:24:57AM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve George <[email protected]> writes: > > I don't think it'd be easy to come up with rules for this, and that it's > probably best to leave humans judging the situation.
Yes agreed, it's a judgement. > We could have some guidelines though, for things to consider: > > 0. Does the package provide value? If it's security sensitive and > unmaintained for years, the value would appear little to me. > > 1. Is the package perhaps effectively maintained by others (via a fork, > by Debian maintainers, Fedora, etc.) ? If the answer to 0 is positive, > someone may have committed to keeping the software at least > building. > > If the package is effectively unmaintained and can't easily be built > without a lot of efforts, that may be a good reason to not include it in > Guix, I'd think. These are great ones to consider, particular security vs value. I admit I tend to look at what the other distributions are doing, particularly Debian. Thanks, Steve / Futurile
