Subject: bug#52577: ‘guix lint’ throws an ugly backtrace if the GitHub updater receives “rate limit exceeded” error

From: Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:49:20 +0100

On Tue, Dec 21 2021, Maxime Devos wrote:

> Xinglu Chen schreef op di 21-12-2021 om 18:17 [+0100]:
>> O[...]
>> Yeah, the catch/throw system doesn’t really work well with ‘raise’.
>> Here is what I found after some digging: [...]
>
> My point was that a raise-style exception shouldn't be wrapped in a
> (%exception ...) and then again in an &exception-with-kind-and-args,
> this wrapping should ‘collapse’. Seems like a bug in Guile.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

> Anyway, your patch to Guix looks reasonable to me, though it would be a
> good idea to look into fixing the double-wrapping in Guile.

Cool, fixing the issue in Guile itself would be great, I might look into
it in the future.  :-)