Subject: Re: bug#57867: Tealdeer build fails

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 12:19:23 +0100

Hi Corvo,

Corvo Liu <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't get it. How can a package "used to work" and "fail" now? If that is
> the case, how is guix "declarative"?

Some dependencies might have been updated in the meantime resulting in
build failures.  If you use a Guix commit from back when that package
was building fine, it will still build fine.  Guix being reproducible
doesn't mean that Guix doesn't update any of its packages.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret