Check: missing signature, mirrors

[Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm packaging 'Check'. [1]

There are two problems:

1. There is no signature. [2]

2. 'guix-download' hangs after several redirects.

# ./pre-inst-env guix-download
mirror://sourceforge/check/0.9.9/check-0.9.9.tar.gz
accepted connection from pid 2715, uid 0
starting download of `guix-download.143ZR4' from
`http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/check/0.9.9/check-0.9.9.tar.gz'...
ERROR: download failed
"http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/check/0.9.9/check-0.9.9.tar.gz"
301 "Moved Permanently"

[...]

starting download of `guix-download.143ZR4' from
`http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/check/0.9.9/check-0.9.9.tar.gz'...

To be more specific:

# ./pre-inst-env guile
GNU Guile 2.0.6

[...]

scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (web uri) (web client)
scheme@(guile-user)> (http-get (string->uri
"http://tenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/check/check/0.9.9/check-0.9.9.tar.gz"))
web/client.scm:109:4: In procedure http-get:
web/client.scm:109:4: Throw to key `bad-response' with args `("EOF
while reading response body: ~a bytes of ~a" (82080 602679))'.

I've found these threads, [3,4] but the proposed solution [5] is a bit
extreme. It's highly possible that I'm missing something. Is there a
workaround?

Nikita

[1] http://check.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/check/files/check/0.9.9/
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-03/msg00116.html
[4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-03/msg00150.html
[5] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-03/msg00167.html