Hi, I am proposing to remove the package python-pyxel. The rationale is:
+ Broken [1] since months + Update needs “some” work + Two years without an update + An issue about upstream source Therefore, if someone is interested, please update it. Else I will remove it. Some more explanations for the interested reader about unavailable source. :-) If I read correctly, ‘python-pixel’ had been added and never modified since then. bca5d7dbb0fc919f954a8fe5f6236c0a89e451bd AuthorDate: Mon Aug 30 17:27:25 2021 +0200 CommitDate: Tue Aug 31 23:20:09 2021 +0200 Two years later, an user gets the source of “python-pyxel” because the Guix project still stores it. But we cannot predict when the store of the build farms will be garbage collected and this checkout substitute will disappear making this package broken for many Guix revisions. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix build python-pyxel -S --no-substitutes The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/r84kncvf8ppr5q1lijp33rb9bsyzbgks-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv /gnu/store/pi07a883dv6d7l4bkw4f1wwipw1fhin7-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv building /gnu/store/pi07a883dv6d7l4bkw4f1wwipw1fhin7-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv... guile: warning: failed to install locale environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/y3vdq2pdkljrw63xxnc2vb6lz07ycar6-git-minimal-2.41.0/bin:/gnu/store/78rf44kf4xf6lc01jjy9ci5905j2344l-gzip-1.12/bin:/gnu/store/z45rrcnvcw31h1wbl1zh8hh79jkwv0gs-tar-1.34/bin' Initialized empty Git repository in /gnu/store/m79d72fh3k4vypcqrsikrwikrscwqd6m-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout/.git/ >From https://github.com/kitao/pyxel * tag v1.4.3 -> FETCH_HEAD [...] HEAD is now at be75b72 Merge branch 'develop' r:sha256 hash mismatch for /gnu/store/m79d72fh3k4vypcqrsikrwikrscwqd6m-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout: expected hash: 0bwsgb5yq5s479cnf046v379zsn5ybp5195kbfvzr9l11qbaicm9 actual hash: 03ch79cmh9fxvq6c2f3zc2snzczhqi2n01f254lsigckc7d5wz08 hash mismatch for store item '/gnu/store/m79d72fh3k4vypcqrsikrwikrscwqd6m-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout' build of /gnu/store/pi07a883dv6d7l4bkw4f1wwipw1fhin7-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/pi/07a883dv6d7l4bkw4f1wwipw1fhin7-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv.gz'. cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/r84kncvf8ppr5q1lijp33rb9bsyzbgks-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/r84kncvf8ppr5q1lijp33rb9bsyzbgks-python-pyxel-1.4.3-checkout.drv' failed --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Now, one can think it is a classic hash mismatch. Arf, foolish no! Upstream is managing using the worse workflow I have seen. Here is the history of tag v1.4.3 replacement: v1.4.3 8bcb6f04eb184876d7807b89b34057ca0897b392 07 August 2021 v1.4.3 8bcb6f04eb184876d7807b89b34057ca0897b392 09 December 2021 v1.4.3 7d27898e218d6b4cb62779dc22b409d02860f155 27 December 2021 v1.4.3 be75b724cae9e10e56a82a5421f9dd65390f1a06 22 September 2022 v1.4.3 be75b724cae9e10e56a82a5421f9dd65390f1a06 today And surprise surprise: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ git clone https://github.com/kitao/pyxel $ git -C pyxel show 8bcb6f04eb184876d7807b89b34057ca0897b392 fatal: bad object 8bcb6f04eb184876d7807b89b34057ca0897b392 $ git -C pyxel show 7d27898e218d6b4cb62779dc22b409d02860f155 fatal: bad object 7d27898e218d6b4cb62779dc22b409d02860f155 $ git -C pyxel show --format=%H v1.4.3 tag v1.4.3 Tagger: Takashi Kitao <takashi.ki...@gmail.com> Pyxel 1.4.3 be75b724cae9e10e56a82a5421f9dd65390f1a06 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Because of this, there is a mismatch. However, good news: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ git -C pyxel checkout v1.4.3 Previous HEAD position was 5fa45abb51b8 Changed the order of the options HEAD is now at be75b724cae9 Merge branch 'develop' $ guix hash -rx $(guix build -S python-pyxel) pyxel 03ch79cmh9fxvq6c2f3zc2snzczhqi2n01f254lsigckc7d5wz08 03ch79cmh9fxvq6c2f3zc2snzczhqi2n01f254lsigckc7d5wz08 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The ’snippet’ is now unnecessary. The build fails though. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- starting phase `build' running "python setup.py" with command "build" and parameters () Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "setup.py", line 2, in <module> from pyxel import VERSION File "/tmp/guix-build-python-pyxel-1.4.3.drv-0/source/pyxel/__init__.py", line 6, in <module> from collections import MutableSequence ImportError: cannot import name 'MutableSequence' from 'collections' (/gnu/store/dy3xh053ahkhrp2jamggq8cpsyvp8mg0-python-3.10.7/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py) error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception: %exception #<&invoke-error program: "python" arguments: ("-c" "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\\r\\n', '\\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" "build") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f> phase `build' failed after 0.2 seconds command "python" "-c" "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\\r\\n', '\\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" "build" failed with status 1 builder for `/gnu/store/kg2nw12ma22i89qjymxgjkbwjsbbrn3q-python-pyxel-1.4.3.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/kg2nw12ma22i89qjymxgjkbwjsbbrn3q-python-pyxel-1.4.3.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/kg/2nw12ma22i89qjymxgjkbwjsbbrn3q-python-pyxel-1.4.3.drv.gz'. guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/kg2nw12ma22i89qjymxgjkbwjsbbrn3q-python-pyxel-1.4.3.drv' failed --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Cheers, simon 1: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1840895/details