Re: Superseded packages

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:39:08PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format.
> > Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion
> > of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias
> > would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail.
> 
> Then I don’t know.  Either we mark Attic as superseded by Borg anyway,
> or we need another mechanism to mark a package as “discouraged”?

I've attached a patch that marks Attic as superseded by Borg. I'd like
to put it on core-updates. That way, we can mention it in the release
notes of the next Guix release, and hopefully people will notice the
change.

WDYT?

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