Subject: Re: bug#29088: Superseded package is not rebuild if native dependency changes

From: Hartmut Goebel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:39:14 +0100

Am 31.10.2017 um 23:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Superseded packages cannot be built/installed unwillingly.  In the
> example above, what you built is “gpgme”, not “gpgmepp”, which is why
> any changes to “gpgmepp” had no effect.

IC. Indeed I missed that a different package was build. So I agree, this
is not a bug.

But i suggest to emit a more verbose message in this case, e.g.:

guix build: package 'gpgmepp'
will not be build, since it       <<--- new
has been superseded by 'gpgme'.
'gpgme' will be build instead.    <<--- new

Or (maybe easier to implement:
guix build: package 'gpgmepp' has been superseded by 'gpgme'.
Thus 'gpgme' will be build instead of 'gpgmepp'.        <<--- new

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel          | [email-masked]               |
| www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |