Re: Accuracy of importers?

[Carlo Zancanaro]

Hi Nicolas/Ludo,

On Fri, Oct 29 2021, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> > Among those, which importers provide source that differs from 
> > what you’d get from upstream’s checkout or release tarballs? 
> > My guess:
> >
> >    elpa (gives hosted tarballs that can differ from upstream 
> >    repo)
>
> Indeed.

For MELPA specifically there is code to grab the upstream Git 
repository details, but it doesn't seem to work when the module is 
compiled. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49006 for some details.

Carlo