zimoun schreef op wo 02-02-2022 om 19:42 [+0100]:
> [...]
> 
> This asks two questions:
> 
>  1. How to get now this patch?  Someone?  Or is it lost forever?

>  2. How to preserve such patches?  Other said, are they part of the
>  Disarchive machinery?  For now, some patches are probably missed by
>  sources.json and thus not ingested by SWH.  Or, do we systematically
>  include them in 'gnu/packages/patches' (which appears to me the easiest
>  and the robustest) and as proposed for instance by patch#49820 [1]?
> 

My suggestion: in these cases, we can do

  (origin
    (patches
      (list (file-append
              (origin (uri (git-reference
                             (url "https://git.archlinux.org/...")
                             (commit "deadbeef...")))
                      (method git-fetch)
                      (sha256 "...")))
              "/.../pdftex-poppler0.76.patch")))).

It's a bit long-winded, but SWH should be happy with this.
This doesn't retroactively unbreak old commits though ...
                
Greetings,
Maxime.