Hello,

Thanks Andy & Ricardo for the detailed explanations!

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:

> It seems that this bug is related to the introduction of
> url-fetch/reset-patch-level.  It takes a #:guile kwarg but defaults to
> #f; if not given #:guile, that #f propagates through instead of a
> package object.

Nasty.

To reproduce the problem reported here, one can:

  1. Revert the “band-aid commit”
     9f05908fb1e3707cae593d94688748294717a546.

  2. Change download.scm to force it to behave as when talking to an old
     daemon.

This gives this: