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[bug#53238] [PATCH] gnu: tree: Remove stddata feature.
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
[bug#53238] [PATCH] gnu: tree: Remove stddata feature. |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:26:19 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
>> Olivier,
>>
>> Thanks again for tracking down this weird bug!
>>
>> Olivier Dion via Guix-patches via 写道:
>>> This feature breaks some UNIX utilities. Fix it by disabling
>>> the feature.
>>
>> Hm… How long would we have to carry this fork? My fear is we'd
>> do so indefinitely.
>
> I've contacted the maintainer asking for removal of the feature in its
> next release. I'm not sure if this will have some impact. Feel free to
> do the same at <ice+tree@mama.indstate.edu>, maybe adding more weight
> in the balance would help.
>
>> How about creating a (possibly hidden) tree-without-stddata
>> package variant, to use as input to packages who currently break
>> with this feature enabled? That lets us refcount the need for it.
>
> It's more than just packages, it's also user scripts that can be broken
> and believe me when I say that this is not an easy bug to track down ;-).
I'm on the fence about this, it does indeed seem an undesirable change,
especially since there's a --json option, but I am not the author of the
'tree' software.
Attached is an alternative that adjusts password-store instead of
removing this new tree "feature"...
0001-gnu-password-store-Fix-test-failure-following-tree-u.patch
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Thanks,
Maxim