Subject: [bug#70130] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-stgit-2.

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:52:15 +0100

Sergio Pastor Pérez <[email-masked]> writes:

> * gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm (emacs-stgit-2): New variable.
>
> Change-Id: I0231d35ae94ce26eb4a9e55f70d78ab33c5f03e3
> ---
>  gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> index 977aa89729..4999048625 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> @@ -7552,6 +7552,32 @@ (define-public emacs-standard-dirs
>  configuration, cache, and other data.")
>      (license license:gpl3+)))
>  
> +(define-public emacs-stgit-2
> +  (package
> +    (inherit stgit-2)

Package inheritance across modules is problomatic [1], which is probably
what's causing the issue with QA/the data service processing this.

You can avoid this by moving the package definition to the
version-control module where stgit-2 is defined.

1: https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Cyclic-Module-Dependencies.html