Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gzstream.

[Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>]

Thanks for the patch!  Comments below:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:17:14 +0100
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> From 5e96b895c1ed77a6bfdcbe5c6dbd68220fd5a8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <m.bakke@warwick.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:29:51 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add gzstream.
> 
> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (gzstream): New variable.
> ---
> [...]
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri
> +               ;; No versioned URL, but last release was in 2003.
> +               "http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/gzstream.tgz")
> +              (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "00y19pqjsdj5zcrx4p9j56pl73vayfwnb7y2hvp423nx0cwv5b4r"))))

There's a gzstream.o file in the tarball.  Could you remove it an origin
snippet?

> [...]
> +    (home-page "http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/")
> +    (synopsis "C++ library that provides the functionality of zlib in a C++ iostream")

Maybe: "Compressed C++ iostream"

> +    (description "gzstream is a small library for providing zlib functionality in a C++
> +iostream.  It is basically just a wrapper.")

The second sentence may be left off, IMO.

> +    (license license:lgpl2.1)))
                        ^
This should be lgpl2.1+ because of the "or later" in the file headers.

Could you send an updated patch?

`~Eric