On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:08:25PM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (daemontools): New variable.

Cool!

> +    (name "daemontools")
> +    (version "0.76")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append
> +                    "https://cr.yp.to/" name "/"
> +                    name "-" version ".tar.gz"))

Can you check if there are any important patches (security or other bug
fixes) floating around? This release is 16 years young...

For example, you might look at Debian's diff.gz:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/daemontools