bug#52591: downloading from software archives as default even if version is wrong

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 04:23:11PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 4:10 PM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> > OK to close as NOTABUG?
> sure

Wait! :)

Although I agree that this behaviour is not a bug, it's something that
many Guix contributors discover independently and find confusing, or
even distressing.

And we sometimes receive patches that include the wrong source hash or
wrong URL because of similar issues; sometimes these mistakes are even
committed to guix.git.

Maybe there is *something* we can do to improve this experience, if only
a section in the manual or a tweak to the UI.

Any ideas?