Dear Ricardo, On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 22:21, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
> > a) Add the Bioconductor release (known at packaging time) to all the > > packages; provide as argument to 'bioconductor-uri'. > > b) Add more URLs to fallback. > > > > As discussed on IRC, Tobias seems more inclined with the option a) and > > I am more in favour of option b. > > I think option a) is more explicit, which is probably what we generally > want to future-proof the time-machine. Fallbacks are okay in the case > of the CRAN URL where it’s not necessarily clear when a package tarball > moves from the release location to the archive. > > In the case of Bioconductor URLs it seems that we can afford to be a bit > more accurate. We are going for option a) which means rename all the URLs, right? Because it is a lot, I suggest to first address the bug#36805, i.e., provide as an argument the BioConductor version to 'bioconductor-uri' and applies this policy to all the new packages or any update of them. Moreover, I have suggested to reorganise bioconductor.scm, bioinformatics.scm, cran.scm, etc. and I have not dedicated enough time to this boring task. But because I am working remotely (semi-lockdown), I plan to work on it next week and so this change of URLs could be part of the big reorganisation. What do you think? [1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36805 All the best, simon
