This patch causes the autodetection code in lib/systems/platforms.nix
to return {} if it cannot detect the platform and one of the
platform.nix-detection-provided attributes (linux-kernel, gcc, and
rustc) are accessed, rather than silently assuming the "pc" platform
as was previously done.
It is definitely safe to assume that code using these attributes is
prepared to deal with `gcc` and `rustc` not being defined, because
many of the working entries in this file don't define it.
Regarding `linux-kernel` the situation is less certain, but some code
(`lib/systems/default.nix` for example) is already designed to deal
with that attribute being missing. At worst it would result in an
"attribute not found" error.
While adding mips64el bootstrap support to nixpkgs, the silent
assumption that mips64el routers are actually Intel PCs caused
significant frustration. This commit removes that assumption in order
to save people who port nixpkgs to new platforms in the future from
this frustration.
This warning logs when a package has no maintainers. It will stay silent
if `meta.maintainers` is not set at all, only complaining when it is an
empty list. In the future a separate warning could be added to allow for
that stricter behavior. Or this warning could be changed.
This will allow for adding more validity types in the future, such as a
warning type. (which is in the next commit in this series)
This is NOT a breaking change because validity.valid is never exposed
outside of `stdenv.mkDerivation`.
deinferno