[maintenance] Compressed JSON files and served file extension?

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

I have just noticed that:

    1123fd8 hydra: build-package-metadata: Compress JSON files.

Cool!

However, now I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ wget https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json
$ cat sources.json | jq | head
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 16
cat: write error: Broken pipe
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and it does not appear to me obvious what is wrong here.

Could we have https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json.gz instead?  The
name is self-consistent.

Well, it will break some consumers of packages.json and sources.json.
To my knowledge, for sources.json at least, the only consumer is SWH and
it appears to me easy to keep them in touch. :-)


Cheers,
simon