Re: Questions about packaging

[Marius Bakke]

Hello Tanguy,

Tanguy Le Carrour <address@hidden> writes:

> In Guix, we have Pytest 4.4.2, but the latest release is 5.2.1.
> In that case, would it make sense to define a new "versionned" public
> variable for python-pytest? Would I create python-pytest5? Or would I
> rename python-pytest to python-pytest4 and add python-pytest for Pytest
> 5? In this later case, would I have to "fix" all the packages that were
> using python-pytest?!

Pytest has 4457 dependent packages and can thus only be changed on the
'core-updates' branch.  So the recommended way is indeed to define a new
public 'python-pytest-5' variable, and add that as an input for the
packages that require 5.x.

On the next 'core-updates' cycle, Pytest 5 will then become the default,
and we will have to fix all packages that does not work with that
version :-)

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