Re: 05/06: gnu: wget: Add wget2.

[Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>]

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Hi Mark and Ludo, 

I wrote a small patch that switches to the official mirror. 

On 2017-11-16 23:22, Mark H Weaver wrote:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 
>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit afc438231623fceb4ec8f3aa2f8c4e8f99a3ec22
>> Author: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 14 19:01:08 2017 +0100
>> 
>> gnu: wget: Add wget2.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/wget.scm (wget2): New variable.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> +   (home-page "https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2")
>> +   (synopsis "Successor of GNU Wget")
>> +   (description "GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive
>> +website downloader.  Designed and written from scratch it wraps around libwget,
>> +that provides the basic functions needed by a web client.")
>> +   (license (list gpl3+ lgpl3+))))
> 
> I was curious about this claim "Successor of GNU Wget", so I looked at
> the canonical GNU Wget site:
> 
> https://gnu.org/s/wget
> 
> which states:
> 
> Currently GNU Wget2 is being developed.  Please help us if you can
> with testing, docs, organization, development, ... see you at Wget2
> collaboration site <https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2>
> 
> For the source and home-page URLs, I would prefer to promote the gitlab
> site over the github one, especially since that's the one referenced
> from <https://gnu.org/s/wget>.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Mark

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From 18d5e35e56f4c34ad0e55cee18eef86b8ea2d5f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:29:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: wget2: Switch to official URL.

* gnu/packages/wget.scm (wget2): Switch to official URL.
---
 gnu/packages/wget.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/wget.scm b/gnu/packages/wget.scm
index a4862d515..bc3b3ad5d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/wget.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/wget.scm
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ online pastebin services.")
     (origin
      (method git-fetch)
      (uri (git-reference
-           (url "https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2")
+           (url "https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git")
            (commit "b45709d3d21714135ce79df6abbdcb704684063d")
            (recursive? #t))) ;; Needed for 'gnulib' git submodule.
      (file-name (string-append name "-" version "-checkout"))
-- 
2.15.0