[bug#41368] [PATCH] Moved gettext to use git to better conform to better bootstrapping, better integration with Software Heritage, and what looks like emerging best practices for package sources.

[joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com]

From: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>

---
 gnu/packages/gettext.scm | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gettext.scm b/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
index 202acf25d4..19920aa210 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
   #:use-module (guix packages)
   #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
   #:use-module (guix build-system perl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages docbook)
@@ -46,12 +47,13 @@
     (name "gettext-minimal")
     (version "0.20.1")
     (source (origin
-              (method url-fetch)
-              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/gettext/gettext-"
-                                  version ".tar.gz"))
+              (method git-fetch)
+              (uri (git-reference
+                     (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gettext.git")
+                     (commit (string-append "v" version))))
               (sha256
-               (base32
-                "0p3zwkk27wm2m2ccfqm57nj7vqkmfpn7ja1nf65zmhz8qqs5chb6"))))
+                (base32
+                  "0p3zwkk27wm2m2ccfqm57nj7vqkmfpn7ja1nf65zmhz8qqs5chb6"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (outputs '("out"
                "doc"))                            ;9 MiB of HTML
-- 
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