Subject: Re: bug#38709: Recursive crate importer ignores specified version

From: Martin Becze <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:19:52 -0800

On 2019-12-22 18:56, Valentin Ignatev wrote:
> When I'm trying to recursively import specific crate version, it
> imports the latest version instead:
> 
> guix import crate --recursive [email-masked] gives this output:
> following redirection to
> `https://static.crates.io/crates/notify/notify-5.0.0-pre.1.crate'...
> following redirection to
> `https://static.crates.io/crates/anymap/anymap-0.12.1.crate'...
> following redirection to
> `https://static.crates.io/crates/bitflags/bitflags-1.2.1.crate'...
> 
> And so on, so it follows notify-5.0.0 instead of 4.0.14
> 
> Regards,
> Valentin Ignatev

Currently the recusive importer doesn't respect version numbers.
Progress is being made on this in issue 38408
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38408

-Martin Becze