GNU bug report logs - #37850
Glib documentation is missing

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>, 37850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37850: Glib documentation is missing
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:04:53 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Alternately, we could define a new “glib-doc” package that would depend
> on the current “glib” package, assuming the build system allows us to
> build nothing but documentation.

Some possible drawbacks:

- It's not consistent with the other Glib/GNOME libraries like gtk+ or
  webkitgtk which have a "doc" output.

- Previously we had glib:doc and no measure can be taken to let the user
  know that it's now "glib-doc".

So I would got for the glib-minimal route.

This bring me to another problem: "glib:doc" was not deprecated, so
users who installed "glib:doc" cannot update their manifests / profiles
after a guix pull.

Can we actually deprecate single outputs?
If not, isn't it a bug?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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