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[PATCH] guix: lint: Honor 'no-archival?' package property.

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Message #62 received at 71697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>,
 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>,
 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>,
 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>,
 Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>,
 71697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <guix <at> cbaines.net>,
 Matthew Trzcinski <matt <at> excalamus.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#71697] [PATCH v3 2/2] scripts: lint: Honor package
 property to exclude checkers.
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:40:55 +0200

Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com> skribis:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM Maxim Cournoyer
> <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think these exclusions should be committed in general to the
>> repo, except when we have for example the author of some software
>> explicitly requesting that SWH archival be disabled for it in Guix.
>
> Author requests are as problematic to a free software distribution as
> the earlier demands to modify historical data are to reproducibility.

+1

I think this would be a slippery slope.  Free software is meant to be
freely redistributable, unconditionally.

Ludo’.

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