Re: Release 1.2.1: python2-pylibmc and libmemcached

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Currently the package Python 2 python2-pylibmc fails to build because
> Cuirass fails to build the dependency libmemcached.  However, this
> package libmemcached locally builds.
>
> Well, I think it fails because this test:
>
>      CXXLD    tests/libmemcached-1.0/testapp
>   |XFAIL: tests/libmemcached-1.0/testapp
>
>
> takes ages.  Does it make sense to add something like:
>
>       (properties
>        `((max-silent-time . 14400))) ; 4 hours, expected even on x86_64
>
> or do we simply remove python2-pylibmc and libmemcached?

Why would we remove libmemcached?  Python 2 is obsolete, but
libmemcached still seems like a fine package to have in Guix.  I say, if
the above change is enough to have it built by the CI, I think it's what
we should do :-).

Thank you,

Maxim