GNU bug report logs - #22139
Indirect dependencies are not grafted

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:40:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Fixed in version 0.9.1

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Indirect dependencies are not grafted
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:38:53 +0100

The grafting mechanism has a shortcoming: it is not recursive.

Suppose we use ‘replace’ to provide a patch libpng.  If a package has a
direct dependency on libpng, it is appropriately grafted to refer to the
new libpng.  However, if a package depends on libfoo, which in turn
depends on libpng, then that package will keep referring to the old
libfoo, which refers to the old libpng.

Ludo’.
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