Subject: bug#42162: Recovering source tarballs

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:10:26 +0200

zimoun <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yes, but for example all the packages in gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
> could be "git-fetch".  Today the source is over url-fetch but it could
> be over git-fetch with https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/flowCore or
> [email-masked]:packages/flowCore.

We should do that (and soon), especially because Bioconductor does not
keep an archive of old releases.  We can discuss this on a separate
issue lest we derail the discussion at hand.

-- 
Ricardo