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icedove: "guix build --source" should produce IceDove source

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: icedove: "guix build --source" should produce IceDove source
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:23:28 -0400

At present, "guix build --source icedove" simply returns the
corresponding IceCat tarball.  The addition of code from upstream
Thunderbird, as well as the rebranding to "IceDove", is currently done
within phases.

It would be good to arrange for "guix build --source icedove" to return
something more appropriate.

I suggest that the first step should add an 'icedove-source' variable
that produces an icedove tarball, for now implemented in a way similar
to 'icecat-source' and incorporating the functionality of the
'prepare-thunderbird-sources' and 'rename-to-icedove' phases of the
'icedove' package.

Note that snippets are unable to do this job, because they are only able
to produce tarballs with the same file name and top-level directory name
as the main upstream input.  In this case, we need to produce a tarball
with name and top-level directory 'icedove' starting from an 'icecat'
tarball.

       Mark

Message #10 received at 43660-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim <at> guixotic.coop>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 43660-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43660: icedove: "guix build --source" should produce
 IceDove source
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:21:31 +0900

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> At present, "guix build --source icedove" simply returns the
> corresponding IceCat tarball.  The addition of code from upstream
> Thunderbird, as well as the rebranding to "IceDove", is currently done
> within phases.
>
> It would be good to arrange for "guix build --source icedove" to return
> something more appropriate.
>
> I suggest that the first step should add an 'icedove-source' variable
> that produces an icedove tarball, for now implemented in a way similar
> to 'icecat-source' and incorporating the functionality of the
> 'prepare-thunderbird-sources' and 'rename-to-icedove' phases of the
> 'icedove' package.
>
> Note that snippets are unable to do this job, because they are only able
> to produce tarballs with the same file name and top-level directory name
> as the main upstream input.  In this case, we need to produce a tarball
> with name and top-level directory 'icedove' starting from an 'icecat'
> tarball.

That's been implemented some time ago. Closing!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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