Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-23 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Bonface Munyoki K. writes: > >>> You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't >>> mind the entire closure of python2-flask* being >>> frozen in the past -- possibly including >>> incompatibilities or known security >>> vulnerabilities. >>> >>> I don't know what their

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Bonface Munyoki K. writes: You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't mind the entire closure of python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly including incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities. I don't know what their inclusion & maintenance criteria are, but another

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-23 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Hi Tobias! Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Bonface, > > Bonface Munyoki K. writes: >> What do you do when you want to use a package that >> has already been removed from guix. An example is >> that I have a legacy project that I help maintain >> that still uses some old python2 packages. One of

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-20 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:35:10AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't mind the entire closure of > python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly including > incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities. > > I don't know what their

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-20 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Bonface, Bonface Munyoki K. writes: What do you do when you want to use a package that has already been removed from guix. An example is that I have a legacy project that I help maintain that still uses some old python2 packages. One of them is python2-flask*. Right now, as a work around, I

What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-20 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Hi Guix! What do you do when you want to use a package that has already been removed from guix. An example is that I have a legacy project that I help maintain that still uses some old python2 packages. One of them is python2-flask*. Right now, as a work around, I manually write the package