Re: [PATCH 01/19] gnu: Add r-assertthat.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Thompson, David <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> +              (uri (string-append "mirror://cran/src/contrib/assertthat_"
>>> +                                  version ".tar.gz"))
>>
>> I wonder if new patches should already contain the archive URI in
>> addition to the default URI.  It was pointed out in a previous thread
>> that the simple URI produced by the importer is only valid for the
>> latest version.
>
> I would recommend creating a 'cran-uri' procedure to avoid having to
> do this everywhere manually.

Yes, this makes even more sense now.  I can only resume work on this by
the end of the week, unfortunately.

~~ Ricardo