From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czg6I-0005N6-8s for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 05:04:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czg6F-0003um-6J for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 05:04:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czg6F-0003uB-2O for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 05:04:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czg6E-0001ZD-8K for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 05:04:02 -0400 Subject: bug#26454: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: add emacs-exwm Resent-Message-ID: From: Alex Kost References: <20170411225803.2420-1-tumashu@163.com> <20170411225803.2420-2-tumashu@163.com> <87inm9sdcs.fsf@gmail.com> <60b3e50e.AEEAJadpHi4AAAAAAAAAAAO0QTIAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABY7oh5@mailjet.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:03:28 +0300 In-Reply-To: <60b3e50e.AEEAJadpHi4AAAAAAAAAAAO0QTIAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABY7oh5@mailjet.com> (Arun Isaac's message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2017 01:35:00 +0530") Message-ID: <87lgr0rafz.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Arun Isaac Cc: 26454@debbugs.gnu.org Arun Isaac (2017-04-13 01:35 +0530) wrote: >>>> + (source >>>> + (origin >>>> + (method url-fetch) >>>> + (uri (string-append "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/exwm-" >>>> + version ".tar")) >>> >>> Could you open an issue with the upstream maintainer asking them to tag a >>> release so that we could use the upstream release tarball directly >>> instead of relying on ELPA's tarball? >> >> Hm, but this ELPA tarball is the release itself, no? > > I thought it would be better if we could get the release tarball > directly from upstream (https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm). What I meant is that the tarball on ELPA is the upstream release itself! ELPA packages are made by the upstream persons, so I bet it is ch11ng who uploaded that tarball to ELPA. So insist that ELPA tarball is the right source and we should use it :-) -- Alex