Subject: Re: bug#49083: ‘guix import pypi’ fails in the absence of “sdist”releases

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:58:36 -0400

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

>> Failing this, we might want to set source to something, that produces
>> an error when read or when used as a variable, similar to how unknown
>> licenses are handled.
>
> Right; not failing seems preferable.

That seems to be the most actionable thing to do.  It'd help when
importing recursively; the whole collections could still be imported
fully (although requiring manual intervention) instead of erroring-out
half-way.

Maxim