Subject: Re: [bug#51509] [PATCH] doc: Mention Hg support for 'guix import cran' and some caveats.

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:17:28 +0100

Hi,

> * guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Mention support for 
> Mercurial repositories
>   for the CRAN importer, and some caveats with the Git and 
>   Mercurial backends.
> ---
> Prompted by Ricardo’s comments on the “Accuracy of importers” 
> thread:
>
> <https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/[email-masked]/T/#mabff98d436895c18f177c4016792ec215f645bbf>

I’d prefer not to mention the limitation (as it’s an 
rstudio-specific modification to DESCRIPTION files) and instead 
work on supporting this extension to the DESCRIPTION file.  I 
already have some WIP to address this.

-- 
Ricardo