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Revert "Revert "Convert maintainer file entries to attributes, add gi…
…thub handles""
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This commit causes many evaluation errors:
Ping: @grahamc, @Profpatsch
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nix-env
has built-in parsing ofmaintainers
. Nobody mentioned that, hm (I personally don’t usenix-env
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I have plenty of scripting that is broken by these messages, because they assume that stderr output indicates some kind of error. It would be great if we could remedy that issue quickly so that I don't have to give up that (generally very useful) assumption.
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We're looking in to this now, thanks @peti.
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Full list indicates something may be wrong with individual packages:
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The maintainer for this one has a null email, checking if this fixes it.
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Yes: The null fields here cause the problems. I'm working on a PR to fix this.
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Waiting for ofborg: #36347
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Merged. Thanks.
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This commit has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/removing-a-maintainer-from-package-metadata/9294/9