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[PATCH] website: Provide JSON sources list used by Software Heritage.

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Message #14 received at 39547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#39547] [PATCH] website: Provide JSON sources list used by
 Software Heritage.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:20:38 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Could you, in a first patch, move ‘origin->json’ out of
>> ‘packages-json-builder’, and in a second patch, add mirror-expansion
>> feature?
>
> Yes, I will try but I am a bit lost. There is:
>  - packages-json-builder that I did not modified
>  - sources-json-builder which the "adaptation" of the former to output
> to the sources.json format.
>
> Well, do you want a refactor of 'origin->json' shared by the 2
> "{sources,packages}-json-builder"?

Yes, exactly.  No reason to have two copies of that code.

> Working on updating the package Julia, I have seen that some patches
> are 'origin' and live for example upstream
> (https://blablab/project.git/patches/fancy-name.patch) and the current
> patch will not list them. Therefore, if upstream disappears and/or
> change in-place the patches, Guix would not be able to re-build in the
> future (time-machine).

Right.  I guess you can implement that in the next version.  What you
propose is already nice to have.

Ludo’.

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