Subject: [bug#34378] update GNOME Planner to current

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:58:43 +0100

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Miloradovsky <[email-masked]> skribis:

> The release is fairly old and contains prebuilt scripts.

What do you mean by “prebuilt scripts”?

> From cbe5c7a354381c665735085a5eb262404e901385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andrew Miloradovsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:03:48 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gnome-planner: update 0.14.6 to 2019-02-08
>
> Build all from a modern version, enable Python bindings.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-planner):
>   - Fetch the sources from GNOME's own GitLab.
>   - Run `autogen.sh` with the proper shell paths.
>   - Enable Python 2 bindings, because we can now.
>   - Add all the inputs necessary for all of that.

Please see ‘git log’ and
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html>
for examples of the commit message format.

> +  ;;; Warning:
> +  ;;; The documentation generation mechanism is long broken. No Yelp yet.
> +  ;;; So the output doesn't contain any docs, unlike the ancient release.
> +  ;;; OTOH, that's probably not a huge concern, given the circumstances.
> +  (let ((commit "fa7cbe309d5a705502ca46f808bcf78840804dbe")
> +        (revision "2019-02-08"))

How did you pick this particular commit?  In general we only package
releases, unless there’s a compelling reason to build straight from the
VCS.  Do you think that’s the case here?

Thanks for the patch!

Ludo’.