[bug#54216] [PATCH] gnu: shepherd-for-guix: New package for use in Guix.

[zimoun]

Hi Ludo,

On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 17:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Normally Guix provides packages for releases rather than snapshots.

Yes, but fetching from Git instead of URL tarball does not mean not a
release. ;-)  Well, fetching from Git would ease the use for snapshots
via transformation.  Other said, the source can point to a Git tagged
release, then people interested in very recent Shepherd can just apply
a transformation.

> In this case, since we’re also upstream, we could make a new Shepherd
> release and update the ‘shepherd’ package in Guix.  I wasn’t sure this
> was necessary yet, but may it is?  WDYT?

I think the switch of source would ease the cycle as Attila is proposing.


Cheers,
simon