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Blocked on #9994, tests will fail until this

A little progress on #10311

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Discussed during the Nix maintainers meeting on 2024-02-26. Idea approved, but :

• Should be mentioned in the release notes
• Should be reflected in the json guidelines policy

• @edolstra: Potentially breaking change, although probably not a big one

  • Also only happens in the new command-line

• @thufschmitt: Do we care about having these null fields?

  • @roberth: Have a slightly different semantics, potentially interesting to distinguish

• Idea approved

• Should be mentioned in the release notes

• Should be reflected in the json guidelines policy

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2024-02-28-nix-team-meeting-129/40499/1

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2024-06-03-nix-team-meeting-minutes-149/46582/1