Subject: Re: [bug#76287] [PATCH] gnu: kexec-tools: Update to 2.0.30.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:52:22 -0500

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 01:33:32PM +0100, [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Ashish SHUKLA <[email-masked]>
> 
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (kexec-tools): Update to 2.0.30.

Turns out that thousands of packages depend on this little one, via
elogind:

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$ guix refresh -l kexec-tools
Building the following 1838 packages would ensure 3464 dependent packages are rebuilt [...]
$ guix package -s . | recsel -e 'dependencies ~ "kexec-tools"' -p name,synopsis,location           
name: localed                                                                   
synopsis: Control the system locale and keyboard layout  
location: gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm:1009:2

name: elogind
synopsis: User, seat, and session management service  
location: gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm:824:2
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Hmph! So it needs to go through a team branch in order to reach the
master branch. It can be the first significant 'kernel-team' branch.