Subject: Re: bug#26346: [PATCH 19/20] build-system/asdf: Handle versioned asdf dependencies.

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:17:14 +0200

Andy Patterson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Add support for depencies of the form (:version <name> <version>).
>
> * guix/build/lisp-utils.scm (normalize-dependency): New variable.
> (make-asd-file)[dependencies]: Use it to generate dependencies with normalized
> names.
> [dependency-name]: New variable.
> [registry]: Use it to flatten the normalized dependencies.
> ---

Could you please explain how this is to be used and why it’s needed?
Where would this be specified?

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Ricardo

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