GNU bug report logs - #51352
Matterbridge contained a lot of vendored code

Previous Next

Package: guix;

Reported by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #11 received at 51352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 51352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51352: Matterbridge contained a lot of vendored code
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:49:28 -0400

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> Given the huge amount of dependencies I was wondering what was the best
> approach here:
> - Would it makes sense to remove matterbridge from Guix, or should we
>   fix it instead?

There's no need to remove it.

Vendoring, or bundling, is not a matter of software freedom, but rather
about maintainability or transparency.

With a bundled dependency graph, the Guix tools for inspecting and
manipulating the dependency graph do not work. But, we already bundle
the dependencies of some other Go packages, and every Rust package does
not work with the Guix dependency graph tooling.
This bug report was last modified 239 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.