Re: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-flycheck: Use the upstream release instead of MELPA.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hello, ‘emacs-flycheck’ package is "broken": as you remember¹ MELPA
> updates tarballs in place (“guix build --source emacs-flycheck” gives me
> a different hash), so it's better to use an upstream release.

My bad, I had forgotten about that problem.

> As can be seen² there is a ready-to-use tarball but only for the
> previous version (0.23).  There is also a snapshot of the source
> code for the latest version (0.24), but it is raw:
>
> - 'emacs-build-system' can't be used because the info manuals will not
>   be generated.
>
> - 'gnu-build-system' can't be used because the provided Makefile was
>   created for preparing a package for Cask (not for a real installing
>   the package into a system).
>
> So I took the previous release for this patch because it doesn't require
> any additional tweaking.

Sounds reasonable.

> From 7df85c9187385607f0156d82f078e1ea2c9c6162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:18:44 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-flycheck: Use the upstream release instead of
>  MELPA.
>
> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (flycheck): Change version to 0.23.
>   Replace MELPA tarball with the upstream release.

OK!

Thanks,
Ludo’.