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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2025-10-16 18:39:09 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2025-10-23 19:35:07 +0200
commita1276ea843a29b5777758026cfb1b9872115f69e (patch)
tree7ecff5bc3dc77ffd733a940403cbe74f6d9d6bf4 /doc
parent99956145589a5dbcfb3838e2332f17caf1fbe27c (diff)
doc: Refer to the Deprecation Policy from “Creating a Channel”.
* doc/guix.texi (Creating a Channel): Reword warning to refer to the deprecation policy. Change-Id: I6c1cd8dfac557634c2963f13f17903f16acbe720
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@@ -5832,6 +5832,7 @@ Voilà!
@c What follows stems from discussions at
@c <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22629#134> as well as
@c earlier discussions on guix-devel@gnu.org.
+@c Updated in 2025 to refer to the Deprecation Policy.
@quotation Warning
Before you publish your channel, we would like to share a few words of
caution:
@@ -5846,10 +5847,10 @@ process.
@item
Package modules and package definitions are Scheme code that uses
-various programming interfaces (APIs). We, Guix developers, never
-change APIs gratuitously, but we do @emph{not} commit to freezing APIs
-either. When you maintain package definitions outside Guix, we consider
-that @emph{the compatibility burden is on you}.
+various programming interfaces (APIs). Those may occasionally change,
+in accordance with our deprecation policy (@pxref{Deprecation Policy}),
+and it is your responsibility as a channel author to adjust your code
+accordingly.
@item
Corollary: if you're using an external channel and that channel breaks, please