Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis: > Ideally, "guix lint" would be run and issues fixed before applying > patches ... !
On the bright side, that there’s just a dozen of issues on 20K packages suggests it’s usually run. :-) I think we’re used to running it for new packages but not when modifying an existing package, which is probably when issues like that are introduced. > Is it worth adding an inexpensive check to etc/git/pre-push that also > checks for file-length and fails to push due to this issue potentially > breaking "make dist"? Could be. > A different angle might be to actually use a different tar format: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html > > I would guess "make dist" is using the tar "v7" format, based on the 99 > character length limit for files. Most of the other formats have no file > length limit or a longer limit. Yes, we could also do that. Thanks, Ludo’.
