Subject: Re: bug#47470: missing source crypto++

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:07:51 +0200

Hi Leo,

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 18:33, Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I saw you used --no-substitutes. Did you try requesting a substitute for
> the source code?

With substitutes, "guix build -S" fetch the source from Berlin.
With --no-substitutes, it fetches from upstream.

Do I miss something?

> Anyways, the cryptopp.com site was online as recently as March 26, only
> 3 days ago.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20210326063427/https://www.cryptopp.com/
>
> It's being discussed upstream:
>
> https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1022
>
> Maybe we should just wait a few hours before changing the source of the
> package.

Yes for sure.  Or even a few days. ;-)

All the best,
simon