Re: [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:21:35PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:26:59AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > > > Hello Guix!
> > > > 
> > > > Attached is a patch to add the SPARTA Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
> > > > Software.
> > > > 
> > > > There maybe is a problem with the source URL: The URL always points to
> > > > the latest version of the source tar ball which is constantly updated
> > > > and immediately released by upstream.  This means that the hash of the
> > > > source tar ball available at this URL changes several times a month.  Is
> > > > this acceptable or does anyone have an idea how this should be handled?
> > > 
> > > I assume you've looked for a more stable URL. Are there other distros
> > > that have solved this problem? Can you contact the SPARTA developers and
> > > ask if there is a solution?
> > 
> > AFAIK this software is not packaged in any other distro.  I am already
> > in contact with the author of SPARTA, he provided the URL that I used in
> > the patch.  I explained the problem to him and I am waiting for his
> > response.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> 
> Not just for this package but potentially for others, could we stick a
> copy on archive.org with a date-stamp or something?

There have been a few packages with unsuitable source URLs in the past,
but I've never paid much attention to how we resolved the issue. It
would be helpful to have a "go-to" solution for this sort of thing,
although in each case the best solution would be for upstream to
maintain a release archive.

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