Ok, I started a guix lint on 0.14.0.1183-1b321.
Will attach log here asap.

2018-01-14 17:53 GMT+01:00 Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]>:

> On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:43:27 +0100
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Gábor Boskovits wrote on 14/01/18 at 17:13:
> > > Maybe we could use guix to check for these, and some
> > > other things could also be spotted.
> > > WDYT?
> >
> > Agreed, I think.
>
> Yeah, +1
>
> > We should be able to improve the quality of these guesses: the
> > repository URI is about as likely to be foo://bar/<package>... as a
> > regular tarball URI.
> >
> > Or we make a file-name mandatory for certain methods.
>
> I agree that some heuristics to figure out the file-name from
> (svn-reference-url ref) would be nice.
>
> It's not that important that the store filenames are meaningful to humans,
> it's just nice-to-have.  So I'd say heuristic it and be done with it.
>
> On second thought, maybe even default file-name to the Guix package name
> (if possible at this point in Guix).  The hash value will make it unique
> regardless (for example if there are multiple svn-download blocks in the
> same package)
>

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