Am Sonntag, dem 28.08.2022 um 15:18 +0200 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > Anyhow: Why should the generic-git updater be able to find > a (later) version, if the github updater did not? Because someone at Microsoft could mess up the API in a way that yields empty results while keeping regular git unchanged. I think fallbacks are nice to have, they are already rare enough to find in Guix. > And indeed 'guix refresh --list-updaters' without this change > reported 31.2% for the github updater and 34.9% for the generic-git > updater. With this patch, it's only 3.7% for the generic-git > updater. (Still the sum of the percent-values is 112%, anyhow better > then the 146% prior to this change.) Perhaps instead of generating a lazy sum, we should (via an appropriate option) generate a histogram counting/reporting the packages covered by 0,1,2,... updaters. Cheers