On 2020-12-18, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Efraim Flashner skribis: > >> Debian 10 (the current release) has guile-2.2.4 > Hmm OK. Should it hold us back, though? Debian 10 doesn't have many of the guile-* build dependencies, so I would not recommend the current Debian stable release block bumping the minimum guile 2.2 version for guix... > 2.2.6 was released in June 2019. Debian bullseye (the testing branch) currently has guile-2.2 at 2.2.7: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guile-2.2 Debian bullseye is likely to become Debian stable mid-2021, starting to freeze in early 2021. It should have all the dependencies for building guix against guile-2.2, and *almost* all for building guix against guile-3.0... > Also, I expect most users to either use Vagrant’s brand new ‘guix’ > package or to use our binary tarball. The guix package may not make it out of Debian experimental any time soon... unless I switch it to use guile-2.2 (and track down the corresponding test suite failures) or the guile-gnutls test suite issues with guile-3.0 get fixed. live well, vagrant