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[PATCH 0/4] Build QEMU with smartcard support, to get GNOME Boxes working

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
Cc: 40631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40631] [PATCH 0/4] Build QEMU with smartcard support, to get GNOME Boxes working
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 10:45:14 +0100

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Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re> writes:

>> +    (description
>> +     "The @acronym{CAC,Common Access Card} library can be used to
>> emulate and
>> +share smart cards from client system to local or remote virtual
>> machines.")
>> +    (home-page "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard")
>> +    (license license:lgpl2.1+)))
>
> I just founded out that 'acronym' isn't displayed at all by “guix show“
> producing “The library can be used [...]”, it can be replaced by 'dfn'
> which is displayed quoted: “The "CAC" library can be used [...]”. I wish
> “guix lint“ would display 'acronym' which seems more usefull than
> 'defn'.

So this is/was a bug in Guile [1] and should be fixed as of Guile 3.0.1
[2].

1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37846
2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2020-03/msg00012.html

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