Subject: bug#26501: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: mutt: Update to 1.8.1.

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:13:11 +0000

Leo Famulari transcribed 1.9K bytes:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 01:59:39PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > * gnu/packages/mail.scm (mutt): Update to 1.8.1.
> > ---
> >  gnu/packages/mail.scm | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> > index 255837198..96ceca5e4 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> > @@ -221,14 +221,14 @@ aliasing facilities to work just as they would on normal mail.")
> >  (define-public mutt
> >    (package
> >      (name "mutt")
> > -    (version "1.8.0")
> > +    (version "1.8.1")
> >      (source (origin
> >               (method url-fetch)
> >               (uri (string-append "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-"
> >                                   version ".tar.gz"))
> 
> I found that Guix's FTP client is having trouble with this URL. It hangs
> until it times out; other clients like wget and Firefox work fine.

Gentoo has two (actually more) URLs in use here:
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/${P}.tar.gz
  https://bitbucket.org/${PN}/${PN}/downloads/${P}.tar.gz

The bitbucket is linked on the mutt homepage, we could use that?
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