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Update hexchat to 2.12.4

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Message #17 received at 26718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: leo <at> famulari.name, julien <at> lepiller.eu
Cc: 26718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26718: Update hexchat to 2.12.4
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:11:24 +0200

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On 30/04/17 22:05, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Then there are changes we make in order to port software to Guix or make
> other relatively unimportant changes. If they can be done with a
> sed-like / regex substitution, we do them in build phases. It's helpful
> to keep them in Scheme, and we don't want to distribute them via `guix
> build --source`.

Ah, I never considered this as a Guix-related fix: shipping symlinks to
/usr might happen to work on some (?) other systems, but it's obviously
not how autotools should be used.

We should serve users with a --source tarball that is either already
bootstrapped or ready to be, not in some dead-end third state.

The correct answer in either case is, of course: ‘it's a silly detail,
Tobias’.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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