Subject: bug#47144: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: patch: Graft to latest commit [security fixes].

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 16:32:55 +0200

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

>  (define-public patch
>    (package
> +    (replacement patch/fixed)

Unless I’m mistaken, this will have practically no effect because Patch
is a build-time-only dependency.

My recommendation would be to not add a ‘replacement’ field at all.
Instead, you could add a new ‘patch/latest’ public variable pointing to
that commit that you picked.  That way, users running ‘guix install
patch’ or similar will get the latest version of Patch.

On the next ‘core-packages-team’ cycle, we’d update Patch to refer to
that commit.

WDYT?

Ludo’.