Re: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add emacs-ht.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Mathieu OTHACEHE (2017-01-27 11:16 +0100) wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:20:46PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>>>> Mathieu Othacehe (2017-01-26 13:31 +0100) wrote:
>>>> > +      (uri (string-append
>>>> > +             "http://melpa.org/packages/ht-"
>>>> > +             version
>>>> > +             ".el"))
>>>> 
>>>> We can't use files from melpa.org because once a new commit appears in
>>>> the upstream repo, melpa will rebuilt the package and remove the
>>>> previous version, so this package will lost its source and will not be
>>>> buildable anymore.  So please use the latest available tarballs instead.
>>
>> Ok, I'll send and update.
>>
>>>
>>> I think the linter should warn about this. It seems like you have to
>>> send this email often.
>>
>> Yes, or modify guix import for melpa ? It seems that I
>> trusted wrongly the output of the importer ...
>
> Yeah, I think adjusting guix import for that would be really great (but
> I'm not a volunteer for this task :-))

What needs to be done?  We cannot guess the upstream URL just from the
MELPA one, can we?

Ludo’.