Backport of fix for leading dot in store paths to 2.17? #10497
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2.17 is technically unsupported. However, since the backport policy was fairly fuzzy until not that long ago, feel free to open a backport PR. I can't guaranty that there'll be a release, but we can at least merge the backport |
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Change of plans then: the baseline should remain 2.18 for now[1], but I don't see a reason to keep 2.17 (and older versions) in nixpkgs then if they don't receive any maintenance anyways. Thanks for reporting back! [1] I'll exclude nix_2_3 from this consideration: it still has a broad userbase to my knowledge so I intend to keep it in nixpkgs. |
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Those are not maintained anymore by upstream Nix[1]. In fact, Nix intends to only maintain > * The latest release > * The version used in the stable NixOS release, which is announced in the NixOS release notes. Given that security issues and regressions happen, for instance latest 2.17 unconditionally rejects leading dots in store-paths, a regression fixed in other Nix versions[2]. I didn't touch * 2.3 since there's still a rather large user-base and it has a special role as the last pre-flakes release. * 2.19 - 2.22: I'm not really sure what the next stable nix for nixpkgs will be and at least 2.19 seems to work relatively well for me. Anyways, touching those seems way more controversial than touching 2.10-2.17, so I'll skip that for now. [1] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/release-notes/ [2] NixOS/nix#10497
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Upon reviewing NixOS/nixpkgs#296709, I realized that 8aaa874 got backported to 2.17, however there's a followup (#9867) that wasn't backported.
Would it be possible to take care of that?
Or is the branch considered dead by now?
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