Subject: Re: bug#26453: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: add emacs-xelb

From: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:04:06 +0530

Thanks for the patch!

> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (string-append "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/xelb-"
> +                           version ".tar"))

Could you open an issue with the upstream maintainer asking him to tag a
release so that we could use the upstream release tarball directly
instead of relying on ELPA's tarball?