Re: Guix in Debian!

[Roel Janssen]

On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 20:04 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> So, a while back I mentioned that Guix was present in Debian
> "experimental":
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html
> 
> And it was useable for a brief window of time, but was broken due to
> some issues with guile-gnutls and guile-3.0:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/964284
> 
> Somewhat deterred, I back-burnered it for a while while I focused on
> other things...
> 
> 
> Just a few days ago, I decided to attempt to get Guix into Debian's
> next
> release, and went with the fallback plan of building it against
> guile-2.2, and a few disabled tests later...
> 
>   https://tracker.debian.org/guix
> 
> 
> If all goes well, it should migrate to "bullseye" in a few
> days. Hopefully in a few months "bullseye" will become Debian's
> stable
> release shipping with guix! Presumeably Guix will also eventually
> find
> itself in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives...
> 
> 
> Now on Debian you should be able to:
> 
>   apt install guix
>   guix install dpkg
>   guix environment --ad-hoc dpkg -- dpkg -i ./guix_1.2.0-3_amd64.deb
> 
> It is almost like symmetry!
> 

This is really awesome.  I'm also grateful for fixing the guile-gnutls
packaging in Debian. Thank you!

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen