bug#64015: guix refresh fails to find latest version for libuv

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Attempting to use 'guix refresh libuv' says:
>>
>> $ LANG=C guix refresh libuv
>> gnu/packages/libevent.scm:117:13: 1.44.2 is already the latest version of 
>> libuv
>>
>> The release form is here: https://dist.libuv.org/dist/v1.45.0/; there's
>> also a release tag in git: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/tree/v1.45.0.
>
> Because the package currently gets its source from dist.libuv.org, the
> ‘generic-html’ updater is picked; it browses
> <https://dist.libuv.org/dist/v1.44.2> and concludes that there’s no
> newer release.  (Currently it doesn’t recurse so there’s no way it could
> find the new release.)

It'd have value to try to recurse the URL when the version string (full,
major-minor, or minor) appears in the URL, but it seems it'd be fragile
(we can't test all possibilities, and upstream may have jumped version
numbers)...

> We could fetch the code with ‘git-fetch’, in which case the ‘github’ or
> ‘generic-git’ updater would fire.

That seems more actionable, good idea!

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Thanks,
Maxim