Subject: Cannot download from (certain) https sources

From: John Darrington <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:38:16 +0200

----- Forwarded message from Ludovic Court??s <[email-masked]> -----

> +(define-public sane-backends
> +  (package
> +    (name "sane-backends")
> +    (version "1.0.24")
> +    (source (origin
> +             (method url-fetch)
> +             (uri (string-append 
> +                   "http://fossies.org/linux/misc/" name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
> +             ;; This is a private mirror.  The canonical download site is
> +             ;; "https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3958/"
> +             ;; but it seems not to work with gnutls atm

Indeed, I get 406 "Not Acceptable".  I???m not sure if this relates to
<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>; could you open a bug?

----- End forwarded message -----

J'

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