GNU bug report logs - #34449
[PATCH] gnu: Add trydiffoscope.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> reproducible-builds.org>

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 34449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> reproducible-builds.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 34449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Subject: Re: [bug#34449] [PATCH] gnu: Add trydiffoscope.
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:26:49 -0800
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On 2019-02-13, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:43:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> I couldn't really think of a straightforward way to mention the
>> diffoscope package, but the attached patch updates the synopsis and
>> description to address the other mentioned issues.
>
> Okay, sometimes these non-code parts are actually the hardest! :)

Indeed.


> I pushed as commit 706460a35754a47bf832a40de4f22271e7088226 with the
> changes below.

Thanks!


> I found that the software didn't work without the requests module, and

I was surpised it worked without it for me (I had seen that it used
requests); could my user profile have somehow leaked python-requests
from some other package?


> that the man page was being installed to a location that is not
> idiomatic for Guix.

I wondered why it wasn't showing up in MANPATH... now I know, thanks!
/usr/share is a hard habit to break. :)


live well,
  vagrant
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