Subject: Re: bug#37940: endless "try upgrading both" cycles

From: Diego Nicola Barbato <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:20:16 +0100

Hello Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

> Now, it doesn’t sound right that ‘util-linux’ is propagated from glib
> and from poppler…?

Glib propagates 'util-linux' since it was updated to 2.58.1 (and poppler
propagates glib).  This isn't the first time it's caused trouble [0].
Marius has proposed a patch to fix it, which is intended for
'core-updates' (It hasn't been pushed yet AFAIK).

Regards,

Diego

[0]: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37732