Alex Kost (2016-04-05 12:29 +0300) wrote: > Chris Marusich (2016-04-04 03:58 +0300) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The attached patches add some useful modules for reading RFCs (and STDs) >> in Emacs. > > Overall the patches look good to me, thanks! But there is a problem > with both packages: the URL of the origin does not point to a versioned > file, so when the author will touch the source, the hash will be changed > and our package will not work anymore. I suppose there are no mirrors > where we can fetch the "constant" source code, so we probably have to > live with this, but it is a potential problem-maker.
Ping for the other reviewers. I don't know what to do with these packages: on one hand they are unreliable because their hashes may change any time. But OTOH we already have the same potential problems with 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc' and 'emacs-constants' packages. I personally wouldn't like to include such packages in Guix at all. I think the only hope with them is that they are dead, so their hashes will not be changed. Federico, did you have this problem in mind when you packaged them? -- Alex
