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password-store fails to build with tree version 2

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Olivier Dion <olivier.dion <at> polymtl.ca>
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 53238 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53238] [PATCH] gnu: tree: Remove stddata feature.
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:26:19 -0500

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Hi,

Olivier Dion <olivier.dion <at> polymtl.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:
>> Olivier,
>>
>> Thanks again for tracking down this weird bug!
>>
>> Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via 写道：
>>> This feature breaks some UNIX utilities.  Fix it by disabling 
>>> the feature.
>>
>> Hm…  How long would we have to carry this fork?  My fear is we'd 
>> do so indefinitely.
>
> I've contacted the maintainer asking for removal of the feature in its
> next release.  I'm not sure if this will have some impact.  Feel free to
> do the same at <ice+tree <at> mama.indstate.edu>, maybe adding more weight
> in the balance would help.
>
>> How about creating a (possibly hidden) tree-without-stddata 
>> package variant, to use as input to packages who currently break 
>> with this feature enabled?  That lets us refcount the need for it.
>
> It's more than just packages, it's also user scripts that can be broken
> and believe me when I say that this is not an easy bug to track down ;-).

I'm on the fence about this, it does indeed seem an undesirable change,
especially since there's a --json option, but I am not the author of the
'tree' software.

Attached is an alternative that adjusts password-store instead of
removing this new tree "feature"...

[0001-gnu-password-store-Fix-test-failure-following-tree-u.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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Thanks,

Maxim

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