Subject: guix download fails with "bad qstring header component"

From: rekado <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:54:21 +0100

In an attempt to build the OpenJDK tools with icepick, I'm getting an
error when downloading the icepick tarball:

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$ ./pre-inst-env guix download http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz
starting download of `/tmp/guix-file.zrKNcT' from `http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz'...
ERROR: Bad qstring header component: 1200667312.0

failed to download "/tmp/guix-file.zrKNcT" from "http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz"
guix download: error: http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz: download failed
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