Re: Release progress, week 8

[zimoun]

Hi Ludo,

On Fri, 02 Dec 2022 at 23:45, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> I started writing super long release notes (a book!), comments welcome:
>
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?  Happiness?  Excitement?  You tell!

I will try to propose a couple of paragraphs for this:

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# Supporting long-term reproducibility

TODO:
  - SWH fallback for channels
  - Disarchive
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About “guix pack -f deb”, I thought it was experimental and it is not
mentioned.  Maybe,

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                                                                 —has
been extended with an experimental format: `guix pack -f deb` creates a
standalone `.deb` package 
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It reminds me that,

    https://othacehe.org/wsl-images-for-guix-system.htm

could fit a Guix blog post.  Mathieu, WDYT?

About the part « **Python packaging** has seen important changes. » I
would mention the removal of many Python 2 packages.  Maxim, WDYT?


Cheers,
simon