[bug#53019] [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add python-pytest-cov-3.0.

[Maxime Devos]

On 31-07-2022 00:52, goodoldpaul@autistici.org wrote:
> Dear Maxime,
> > Likewise as for python-coverage-5.5, why the separate package?
> Both python-pytest-cov and python-coverage have a lot of dependents, 
> they must be updated on staging...

Then you can mention that in the commit message, or better, ask for 
someone to merge staging (it's not core-updates) into master ...

> $ guix refresh --list-dependent python-pytest-cov
> Building the following 521 packages would ensure 1172 dependent 
> packages are rebuilt: python-pysox [...]
>
> $ guix refresh --list-dependent python-coverage
> Building the following 627 packages would ensure 1408 dependent 
> packages are rebuilt: u-boot-puma-rk3399 [...]\
>
> I sent a patch for python-pytest-cov back in march, 
> (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=staging&id=12c9da35389dfba86ae0d863132a6b2c4374205a) 


... mentioning this in the commit message would avoid having the 
reviewer doing some pointless checking whether the new version doesn't 
contain malware, whether it builds reproducibly, etc, as it was 
presumably already done for the staging patch.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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