Subject: Re: bug#34567: Bogus 'upower-service' deprecation message

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:11:43 +0000

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> My OS config includes a reference to 'upower-service', which is now
> deprecated, but the deprecation message is bogus:
>
>   mhw@jojen ~$ guix system build /etc/config.scm --verbosity=1
>   /etc/config.scm:149:19: warning: 'slim-service' is deprecated, use 'slim-service-type' instead
>   /etc/config.scm:156:19: warning: 'upower-service' is deprecated, use 'Return a service that runs @uref{http://upower.freedesktop.org/,
>   @command{upowerd}}, a system-wide monitor for power consumption and battery
>   levels, with the given configuration settings.  It implements the
>   @code{org.freedesktop.UPower} D-Bus interface, and is notably used by GNOME.' instead
>   building /gnu/store/nwdjz1mkvcc4ic65mgw5i94ig3qzp8kf-libjpeg-turbo-2.0.2.tar.gz.drv...
>   [...]

Haha, that is quite bogus. I didn't realise define-deprecated took two
arguments. I've sent a patch to fix this here [1].

1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34579