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To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
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Hi Eric,

On 2015-10-22 at 00:08, quoth Eric Bavier:
> I think passing '#:configure-flags '("--allow-newer=utf8-string")' in
> arguments might do the trick.

This argument doesn't seem to exist, unfortunately.

> Otherwise, the "(substitute* ...)" approach, with a comment, seems
> clearest to me.

I have indeed done that.  In the end it's true that it makes the package
a lot more obvious to read, instead of many lines to download a file
which only changes 2 characters.  I've pushed my latest attempt to the
usual wip- branch.

> Thanks for working on it,

No problem, thank you for putting up with my barrage of dubious patches!
:)

p.