Re: Revising sequoia packaging

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for those who contributed to sequoia packaging:
> 
> Currently, sequoia is packages somewhat sub-optimal:
> 
> There are some rust-creates in crates-io.scm (rust-sequoia-openpgp-0.9,
> rust-sequoia-rfc2822-0.9) and the big sequoia package in sequoia.scm. The
> other sequoia crates are currently not available as separate creates. Future
> versions of pEp (pretty easy privacy, pep.scm, which relies on sequoia) will
> get its own "pEpEngineSequoiaBackend" FFI library.
> 
> I propose the following:
> 
>  * Move all sequoia related crates in to sequoia.scm. As of now these
>    are only rust-sequoia-openpgp-0.9, rust-sequoia-rfc2822-0.9 and
>    there is only on package depending on them rust-libpijul-0.12
>  * bufferedreader, rust-nettle and other crates from the sequoia
>    project but not having "sequoia" (or such) in the name would be kept
>    in crates-io.scm

I like these two.

>  * In sequoia.scm there would be all sequoia crates, with the app
>    packages named without "rust-" prefix ("sequoia-sq", …)

So to clarify, rust-sequoia-openpgp-0.9 (and similar libraries) keep
their names, and sequoia-sq and other "end user binaries" don't have a
'rust-' prefix (and are built with #:install-source? #f).

>  * The current "sequoia" package will become a "wrapper", just
>    propagating (or copying, what ever is more common in guix) the other
>    packages which have an actual output.

Sounds good to me.

> 
> WDYT?
> 

Sounds like you have a good plan :)

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