Yueh-Shun Li

While digging into the overriding problem, it came to me that `overrideAttrs` doesn't work as expected for derivations build by `buildPythonPackage` in the current implementation (prior to this patch). It...

> * Overriding up to `mkDerivation` is tested in `pkgs/test/overriding.nix`. This function is not language specific, so it could be tested there too. Thank you @roberth for telling me where...

> It came to me that that .override after .overridePythonAttrs is already broken before this PR. @FRidh Is this a known issue? Ah, I know why. The `override` attribute is...

Progress: * Split the documentation part into a new PR #262648 for further discussion. * Add `lib.applyToOverridable` as a general approach to modify an "overridable" (attribute sets that comes with...

Does this PR need a release note entry?

Rebase and update the documentation as #262301 have been merged.

nixpkgs-review reports that this PR removes the package `python310Packages.camelot`, but that packages evaluates and builds successfully on my laptop. What's wrong?

@ofborg build python310Packages.camelot

I accidentally rebased and pushed 4 previous commits. The problem is now fixed, sorry for the noise.

Rebase to resolve merge conflict with the master branch.