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less: Adjust version after disappearance of source package #20702

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@sh01 sh01 commented Nov 25, 2016

Motivation for this change

Change less version since the current source http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-483.tar.gz has become unavailable, making it impossible to build this.

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  • Tested using sandboxing
    (nix.useSandbox on NixOS,
    or option build-use-sandbox in nix.conf
    on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • Linux
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

This is a fix for the current package source file
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-483.tar.gz
not being available anymore.

We bump the less version back to 481, and adjust the source package hash
accordingly. This is a (slight) downgrade from 483 as opposed to an
upgrade since
a) 481 is the current Recommended version by http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html
b) Upstream is unreliable about keeping experimental versions around.

…ckage.

This is a fix for the current package source file
  http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-483.tar.gz
not being available anymore.

We bump the less version back to 481, and adjust the source package hash
accordingly. This is a (slight) downgrade from 483 as opposed to an
upgrade since
  a) 481 is the current Recommended version by http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html
  b) Upstream is unreliable about keeping experimental versions around.
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@sh01, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @matthiasbeyer, @edolstra and @mbakke to be potential reviewers.

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Alternatively, upgrade to 487, but I agree it makes sense to go with what upstream recommends.

This effectively reverts 473e5a4

Also, please note that the contribution guidelines mandate that commits that change packages have subjects of the form pkg-name: brief description.

@sh01 sh01 changed the title pkgs/tools/misc/less: Adjust version after disappearance of source package less: Adjust version after disappearance of source package Nov 25, 2016
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@sh01 sh01 deleted the fix_less branch November 25, 2016 02:26
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sh01 commented Nov 25, 2016

I'll recreate this with a commit that has the right subject. Thanks!

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Ah, I didn't mean for you to close the PR :) You can force push the PR branch to update it.

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sh01 commented Nov 25, 2016

Oh whoops. I'll try that next time; as it is, I've re-opened this as #20703 .

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