Subject: bug#52181: [core-update-frozen] many rust package can't build because them source file-name use ".crate" suffix.

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:45:00 +0200

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:31:48PM +0800, Z572 via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> many rust package can't build in core-update-frozen because them
> source file-name use ".crate" suffix.
> 
...
> 
> I think have 2 option:
> 
>  1. change suffix from ".crate" to ".tar.gz".
>  2. maybe let "tarball?" check file like command-line program "file", no
>  just check filename suffix.
> 

As (probably) the person who made it like that in the first place, I
like the idea of changing the suffix from '.crate'  to '.tar.gz'

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