Re: Release 1.2.1: zstd 1.4.4 -> 1.4.9: grafting or core-updates?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 20:18, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:19:53PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > I guess that it will not build for i686.  Does it?
>
> I don't know. Either we will find out when building on CI, or people can
> test it manually now.

Please try out the patch from:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-03/msg00295.html>

and if it works for you, please apply it.

> We might consider building the wip-next-release earlier than you had
> suggested. There is a large number of major updates on the branch, so it
> will unfortunately be more like core-updates than I had planned for.

Let's do that. :-)

> If that's not acceptable, we can narrow the scope of the existing
> grafts, by cherry-picking bug fix patches rather than updating the
> entire package.

You are right, it could be nice to have ASAP an idea about what is
acceptable and then how to narrow.


Cheers,
simon