Hi Ben,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 01:57:08 +0200
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:05:28 -0600
> Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Two question relating to backup:
> >   
> 
> [..]
> 
> > 2) I don't seem to be able to install `libchip` (for chop-backup).
> > It seems to have no substitute binaries and the local build fails.
> > I've fallen back to using Borg backup for now (which seems good,
> > but more fragile than I'd like, especially in terms of setting up
> > automated bash scripts).  
> 
> 
> This build fails since nearly two years! It seams like nobody is using
> (and thus complaining) this software:
> 
> 
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/libchop-0.5.2.x86_64-linux/all
> 
> I opened a bug for this:
> 
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32382
> 
> Thanks for reporting. Do you have an idea on how to fix it?
> 
> Björn


Ludovic fixed the package, so if you do a 

guix pull && guix package -i libchop

it should be working now.

But he also wrote that libchop is unmaintained (and what I didn't know:
he's the author :-)).

Björn