The current guix lint check is a bit overly conservative, and reports several results which do not in practice actually cause issues. This patch proposes to reduce the size by two characters (leaving only two patches on guix master that need to be adjusted), uses a version string more like what actually might be included in a tarball built using "make dist", and adds a comment describing what the arbitrary string actually is supposed to represent. This should still even leave a little wiggle-room when guix hits version 100+ and/or 1000000+ commits, by which time hopefully guix has switched to a tarball format that doesn't have such a short arbitrary file length limit! live well, vagrant