Hello,

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:28:43AM +0200, david.lars...@selfhosted.xyz wrote:
> This is my first contribution to guix and it's just a minor fix for
> the guile-bash package which had an outdated source url. I was able to
> retrieve the same revision of the package via the software-heritage
> project's website and upload it to gitlab. Then I installed it
> successfully via guix package -f my-guile-bash.scm using the gitlab url,
> then copied it to the existing guile-xyz.scm in gnu/packages.
> I have attached a patch-file with the changes.

should the package not be retrieved automatically from Software Heritage
with the newest Guix API? And apart from that, will it be desirable to keep
around an unmaintained software for which the source has disappeared?

Andreas


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