Re: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add emacs-ht.

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2017-01-28 00:16 +0100) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Mathieu OTHACEHE (2017-01-27 11:16 +0100) wrote:
>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:20:46PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>>>>> Mathieu Othacehe (2017-01-26 13:31 +0100) wrote:
>>>>> > +      (uri (string-append
>>>>> > +             "http://melpa.org/packages/ht-";
>>>>> > +             version
>>>>> > +             ".el"))
>>>>> 
>>>>> We can't use files from melpa.org because once a new commit appears in
>>>>> the upstream repo, melpa will rebuilt the package and remove the
>>>>> previous version, so this package will lost its source and will not be
>>>>> buildable anymore.  So please use the latest available tarballs instead.
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll send and update.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the linter should warn about this. It seems like you have to
>>>> send this email often.
>>>
>>> Yes, or modify guix import for melpa ? It seems that I
>>> trusted wrongly the output of the importer ...
>>
>> Yeah, I think adjusting guix import for that would be really great (but
>> I'm not a volunteer for this task :-))
>
> What needs to be done?  We cannot guess the upstream URL just from the
> MELPA one, can we?

Sorry, but I have never used and looked at importers, and I have no
idea how they work, including the (m)elpa one, so I don't know what
can be done on this subject.

-- 
Alex