Re: Automatically testing package updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> skribis:

> I try to keep cadence with update in astronomy module monthly and having
> ongoing refresh work for golang collection. Maybe we may have some API
> output on that type available at <https://packages.guix.gnu.org/>,
> showing the impact ration of the given package and the number of
> dependents as well?

I’m not sure what you mean here.

But what about having an astronomy update manifest?

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> From other side but current implementation of pyproject-build-system or
> python-build-system and related importer/updater in most of the cases
> just breaks the package completely. It looks like the issue comes from
> the fact that Python in a massive migration to pyproject.toml (setup.py
> and setup.cfg are becoming deprecated) which specifies install, test and
> dev dependencies and during refresh it can't be parsed, so it would
> block automatic packge refresh.

Oh.  So we should update the pypi importer/updater to parse that, right?

Ludo’.