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Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:24:05 -0400

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:35:10AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't mind the entire closure of
> python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly including
> incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities.
> 
> I don't know what their inclusion & maintenance criteria are, but another
> approach is to add the removed packages to the guix-past[1] channel.

It might be nice to document these options somehow.

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