Ludovic Courtès schreef op di 11-01-2022 om 13:53 [+0100]:
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> 
> > Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 05-01-2022 om 23:30 [+0100]:
> > > > A TODO for the git-fetch updater:
> > > >    * [ ] following redirects (to avoid mixed case -> lower case
> > > > changes
> > > > and .git suffixes in GitHub URLs)
> > > >    * [ ] Support (let ((commit ...) (revision ...)) [...]) so more
> > > > packages can be updated automatically
> > > 
> > > Hmm wasn’t it the reason we introduced ‘package-definition-location’?
> > 
> > Yes, but it has been a while ago so I preferred to not overcomplicate
> > the patch series more.
> 
> OK, I thought we more or less had a solution in place back then and just
> missed ‘package-definition-location’.
> 
> I think we could do something along these lines:
> 
>   (edit-expression
>     (location->source-properties (package-definition-location p))
>     (lambda (str)
>       ;; substitute commit ID in STR
>       …))
>
> But yes, let’s keep that for a subsequent patch.


See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=53144>,
in particular the new 'latest-git' updater.

Greetings,
Maxime.