Related:
- 9fc5e7e473
- 593e11fd94
- 508ae42a0f
Since the last time I ran this script, the Repology API changed, so I had to
adapt the script used in the previous PR. The new API should be more robust, so
overall this is a positive (no more grepping the error messages for our relevant
data but just a nice json structure).
Here's the new script I used:
```sh
curl https://repology.org/api/v1/repository/nix_unstable/problems \
| jq -r '.[] | select(.type == "homepage_permanent_https_redirect") | .data | "s@\(.url)@\(.target)@"' \
| sort | uniq | tee script.sed
find -name '*.nix' | xargs -P4 -- sed -f script.sed -i
```
I will also add this script to `maintainers/scripts`.
This removes the spidermonkey alias and renames it in the packages still
using it
Not sure if we need it in aliases.nix since just about nothing depends
on it anymore
Additionally considering removal should be a good choice, it's at least
insecure so it should get tagged as such
Remove unneeded glibcLocales. Remove overrided agate-sql and agate-dbf,
as these overrides are not needed. Use pytestCheckHook instead of
overriding checkPhase. Add an upstream patch that fixes tests.
This adds a warning to the top of each “boot” package that reads:
Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus cannot
use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or cgit) that
are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as files.
This makes it clear to maintainer that they may need to treat this
package a little differently than others. Importantly, we can’t use
fetchpatch here due to using <nix/fetchurl.nix>. To avoid having stale
hashes, we need to include patches that are subject to changing
overtime (for instance, gitweb’s patches contain a version number at
the bottom).
