[Nix-dev] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 8f0ea2: pythonPackages: default to python's maintainers an...

[Florian Friesdorf]

Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 20/01/13 16:35, Peter Simons wrote:
>
>>  > pythonPackages: default to python's maintainers and platforms
>> 
>> I am happy to care for the Python interpreter, but I don't want to be
>> notified of build errors for every single Python package out there that
>> doesn't explicitly set 'meta.maintainers' (which is the majority). It
>> appears that this change has that effect, though.
>
> I'll add that setting meta.platforms globally is probably not a good idea
> because it will just add a lot of broken packages to the Hydra jobset.  You
> shouldn't set meta.platforms for a package unless you expect the package to
> build on those platforms or are willing to fix them if they don't.

It's my intention to fix packages / explicityly set platforms for
packages that can't be fixed.

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