On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:12:40PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> I think ‘coreutils-final’ doesn’t need the replacement because the
> ‘coreutils’ package that we get on GuixSD or when typing ‘guix package
> -i coreutils’ is not ‘coreutils-final’.

Right.

> ‘-final’ is only used as an implicit input of ‘gnu-build-system’, where
> the ‘date’ bug is arguably not a problem.
> 
> So for ‘coreutils-final’, I’d just do:
> 
>   (replacement #f)
> 
> WDYT?

I adapted the example of diffutils-boot0 in the attached patch.

> For good measure, ‘coreutils-minimal’ should also have:
> 
>   (source (package-source coreutils/fixed))
> 
> so that it gets the fix (nothing depends on ‘coreutils-minimal’, so
> there’s no need for a graft here.)

Ah, thanks for pointing this out.

I've attached a revised patch.