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[PATCH 0/4] gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.

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From: Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 61674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#61674] [PATCH 0/4] gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 11:11:26 +0000

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Hi all,

It was very insightful patch series I ever sent :-)
I hope I covered all recommendations in v3.

Thanks,
Oleg

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, 03:32 Maxim Cournoyer, <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Maxim,
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 16:54, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> If the inheritance is for *same-source/same-version* variants of a
> >> package, they should use package/inherit, as any security issues found
> >> in the parent package should also be applied to that package (since they
> >> use the same source).  Otherwise, plain 'inherit' should be used
> >> (e.g. for newer version variants).
> >
> > Aahh, that makes sense. :-)  Thank you.
> >
> > For instance, does it mean that
> >
> > (define-public gst-plugins-good-qt
> >   (package
> >     (inherit gst-plugins-good)
> >     (name "gst-plugins-good-qt")
> >     (inputs
> >      (modify-inputs (package-inputs gst-plugins-good)
> >        (prepend qtbase-5
> >                 qtdeclarative-5
> >                 qtwayland-5
> >                 qtx11extras)))))
> >
> > would be incorrect?  It should be 'package/inherit', right?
>
> It should be package/inherit yes, since they share the same source, thus
> the same defects, thus should receive the same replacements/grafts (if
> my preceding reasoning is correct :-)).
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Maxim
>

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