Re: gnu: inetutils: Update to 2.4.

[Andreas Enge]

Hello Felix,

Am Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:37:23AM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner via Development 
of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.:
> With the core-updates process now abandoned, I retitled the issue to
>     "[PATCH wip-inetutils 0/4] gnu: inetutils: Update to 2.4".

apologies for not replying earlier - this was because I did not have the
answer... I think this is a place where the feature branch idea is not yet
fully thought out. It is quite clear how branches closer to the leaves
could work (language branches, a qt/kde branch, such things); and probably
also "core things". There I see two kinds of cores: First, things that are
very close to Guile/Guix (switching to gexps, rewriting the daemon in Guile,
these kind of things). And maybe something more like "bootstrap" and "tool-
chain" (changing the Guile version, updating gcc/mpfr/mpc, probably rust,
and so on).

I do not yet have a clear picture for things on a "middle level", but which
cause a lot of rebuilds. Which kind of team would be responsible for
inetutils?

Suggestions would be very welcome!

Something completely different: I am not sure whether inetutils should have
so many dependencies. It only contains binaries and no libraries. For
instance, it is sometimes used as native input for tests, but tests do not
have access to the inet anyway. So maybe it would make sense to identify
the "root" where this package is pulled in, drop the input and modify
the test suite?

Andreas