Subject: Re: [bug#44003] [PATCH v2] gnu: emacs-julia-mode: Update to 0.4-0.8bfc709.

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:42:16 +0200

Dear,

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 21:33, Brett Gilio <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Using tagged releases is preferred. I would remove the commit
> let-binding and go about it using version numbering.

It is currently the convention and uniformity matters. :-)
But IMHO it is bad practise.  Using commit hash enforces
content-addressed, which is obviously not the case with "tags".  Tags
are fragile for upstream in-place replacement, for example.  For
reference, [1] and BTW all the thread is worth to read. :-)

1: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00236.html>

All the best,
simon