From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40528) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZwP1-0003lv-NV for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:22:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZwOw-0003Rg-Nh for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:22:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZwOw-0003R8-Jw for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:22:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gZwOw-0004hn-8d for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:22:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#33801] import: github: Support source URIs that redirect to GitHub Resent-Message-ID: From: Arun Isaac In-Reply-To: <87woo4qxg7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0pxtciz.fsf@gnu.org> <87woo4qxg7.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:50:50 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 33801@debbugs.gnu.org > Hmm, now that I think about it, shouldn=E2=80=99t we store the github.com= URL > directly for these packages? We could add a new lint check along the > lines of the =E2=80=98check-mirror-url=E2=80=99 procedure that would allo= w us to find > out which URLs need to be changed. If we took that route, the changes > you made to the importer would no longer be necessary. :-/ My changes only took a small amount of effort. I don't have much of an issue with them being made obsolete. Shall I proceed with creating a lint check along the lines of what you proposed?