Re: Should a Guix package include documentation dependencies to be considered complete?

2022-12-07 Thread Akib Azmain Turja
jgart writes: > Hi Guixers, > > For example, > > https://github.com/Abjad/abjad/blob/63520b2a00ef59f3302837f843d069c3946baa6c/docs/Makefile#L113 > > We have abjad packaged but we don't necessarily have all the > dependencies needed to build everything that abjad provides such as a > PDF document

Re: Should a Guix package include documentation dependencies to be considered complete?

2022-12-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-12-07, jg...@dismail.de wrote: > We have abjad packaged but we don't necessarily have all the > dependencies needed to build everything that abjad provides such as a > PDF document that it mentions in its project Makefile. > > Should we include the LaTeX dependencies in the abjad package?

Re: Should a Guix package include documentation dependencies to be considered complete?

2022-12-07 Thread Attila Lendvai
> We currently include all the dependencies to run the tests, why not do > the same for documentation building? > > Should we make it a requirement or goal to always package a given package's > "documentation-inputs"? i also lack guidance on this. and i somewhat miss a "test-inputs" field to

Should a Guix package include documentation dependencies to be considered complete?

2022-12-07 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, For example, https://github.com/Abjad/abjad/blob/63520b2a00ef59f3302837f843d069c3946baa6c/docs/Makefile#L113 We have abjad packaged but we don't necessarily have all the dependencies needed to build everything that abjad provides such as a PDF document that it mentions in its

Python Packaging Policy

2022-12-07 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, What is our approach/policy to versioning Python packages? Since we get Python packages from PyPi in addition to other sources we are not necessarily trying to mirror PyPi. What is our policy then for updating Python packages in our Python library collection? Rolling release?

Re: Packaging big generated data files?

2022-12-07 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > Is there any policies or past decisions of the Guix project on > packaging big generated data files? commit 183db725a4e7ef6a0ae5170bfa0967bb2eafded7 Author: Ricardo Wurmus Date: Tue May 15 12:55:27 2018 +0200 gnu: Add r-bsgenome-dmelanogaster-ucsc-dm6.

Packaging big generated data files?

2022-12-07 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
Hi, Is there any policies or past decisions of the Guix project on packaging big generated data files? I've added packages for software like kiwix-tools and navit that both work offline but that also need data files to be useful. Navit is a (car) navigation software that need maps. The maps can

Re: Release progress, week 8

2022-12-07 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo, > fe563a87ad gnu: texinfo, info-reader: Do not run tests when cross-compiling. Wow, that's a lot of fixes! > Yesterday on IRC we discussed an installer crash received at > dump.guix.gnu.org. Did you or will you have time to look into it? Yes and I think that for some reason we