From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: guile-bash updated source url Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 12:11:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20190501101119.GB31776@jurong> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLmDA-0002L3-6O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 06:11:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLmD7-0006a1-66 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 06:11:36 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a0c:e300::1]:50528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLmD7-0006WI-02 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 06:11:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: david.larsson@selfhosted.xyz Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:28:43AM +0200, david.larsson@selfhosted.xyz wrote: > This is my first contribution to guix and it's just a minor fix for > the guile-bash package which had an outdated source url. I was able to > retrieve the same revision of the package via the software-heritage > project's website and upload it to gitlab. Then I installed it > successfully via guix package -f my-guile-bash.scm using the gitlab url, > then copied it to the existing guile-xyz.scm in gnu/packages. > I have attached a patch-file with the changes. should the package not be retrieved automatically from Software Heritage with the newest Guix API? And apart from that, will it be desirable to keep around an unmaintained software for which the source has disappeared? Andreas