Subject: Re: [bug#61829] [PATCH 01/11] gnu: Purge pre-1.3.0 deprecated packages.

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:57:43 +0100

Hi Bruno,

On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 at 02:29, Bruno Victal <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This was informally discussed in #guix with Ludovic as a follow-up to
> the services cleanup. (tracked at #61789)

Ah cool!

> The idea is to shed pre-1.3.0 deprecated code from Guix to reduce the
> overall maintenance burden. Given the age of the release and the warnings, I assume
> most users/maintainers would have taken notice and applied updates.
> (no actual package definitions have been removed, only their old aliases)
>
> These variables were found by grep + git blame'ing the files and combing the output
> to ensure that only pre-1.3.0 variables were considered.

Well, I have nothing for the removal, only with the process.  Somehow,
we are missing a policy for such, IMHO.  And that’s not related to this
series. :-)

Since the variables are deprecated since a very long time, yeah it
sounds reasonable to remove them.

Cheers,
simon