Hi,

Nicolas Graves <ngra...@ngraves.fr> writes:

> It's not the first time I run into something like this :
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh emacs-haskell-mode
>
> [...]/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm:2971:13: warning: 17.5 is greater than
> the latest known version of emacs-haskell-mode (16.1)
>
> This happens when the github interface has "releases" but stopped
> publishing them, even though some later tags exist.  IMHO, the better
> developpement experience would be to use the latest tag when it's
> greater than the latest "release".

(This should probably be a bug report.)

More generally, I wonder what the ‘github’ updater buys us compared to
the ‘generic-git’ updater.  Can the former do anything that the latter
cannot?  Or does it perform better somehow?

If not should we remove it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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