I’ve sadly become aware that Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves
(@AluisioASG), a contributor to Nixpkgs until 2021, tragically
[passed away that year] at the age of only 25 from complications
caused by COVID‐19.
[passed away that year]: https://ufpr.br/ufpr-lamenta-a-morte-do-estudante-aluisio-augusto-silva-goncalves-25-anos/
It doesn’t feel respectful of this loss to have a bot ping his
account every time Iosevka gets an update, or to have people expect
reviews or support for the packages he maintained, so let’s retire
his maintainer list entry.
I’ll adopt ffmpeg-python in my concurrent pull request, but there are
a lot of other packages that could use new maintainers. I encourage
people to consider continuing his work on Nixpkgs if any of them are
of interest.
On the off chance that any of his family or friends ever see this
message, I wish I could say more than that I’m sorry for your loss.
The nixpkgs-unstable channel's programs.sqlite was used to identify
packages producing exactly one binary, and these automatically added
to their package definitions wherever possible.
checkInputs used to be added to nativeBuildInputs. Now we have
nativeCheckInputs to do that instead. Doing this treewide change allows
to keep hashes identical to before the introduction of
nativeCheckInputs.
- Add the 'gitUpdater' helper function to update git based packages, using the
'genericUpdater' function.
- Rework argument passing to the `list-git-tags' and 'list-archive-two-level-versions' scripts.
- Replace 'genericUpdater' plus 'list-git-tags' by 'gitUpdater'
After making `ffmpeg` point to the latest `ffmpeg_4`, all packages that
used `ffmpeg` without requiring a specific version now use ffmpeg_3
explicitly so they shouldn't change.
