Subject: bug#26369: [PATCH] import cran: Fetch DESCRIPTION files from Github mirror.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:57:35 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * guix/import/cran.scm (%bioconductor-svn-url): Remove variable.
> (bioconductor-mirror-url): New procedure.
> (fetch-description): Take a REPOSITORY symbol instead of a BASE-URL string.
> (cran->guix-package): Pass REPOSITORY symbol to "fetch-description".
> (latest-cran-release, latest-bioconductor-release): Adjust accordingly.
> (bioconductor-package?): Update comment about SVN.

LGTM.

Out of curiosity, what’s the rationale for using the GitHub mirror
instead of the SVN repo?

Thanks,
Ludo’.