Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: […] >>>>>> Could we use emacs-zones from Elpa? See >>>>>> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/zones.html . ‘guix import elpa >>>>>> emacs-zones’ will produce a decent ‘origin’ record to pull a source. >>>>> >>>>> My understanding is that ELPA and MELPA tarballs are not necessarily >>>>> persistent and immutable, and that we generally prefer referring >>>>> directly to the upstream repo. >>>> >>>> Ouch, I thought ELPA is persistent. That's a significant argument to >>>> not use ELPA for our purposes :-( . >> >> I only know that MELPA isn’t immutable. I assumed that ELPA is fine. > > [...] > >> git-fetch is the preferred way when there are no stable tarballs. > > So, Oleg, I think you can go either way, but fetching over Git is > probably safer. > > Can you apply the patch? OK, pushed as c881ed8698517a2c2007c2fdc3a7aeec52ff109c with a source fetching over Git. Thanks, Oleg.