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29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:19:16 +0100

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Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The old links are broken, but is the new one in the patch too long?
Is this suitable for emacs-29?

[0001-Fix-broken-links-to-Freedesktop-notifications-spec.patch (text/x-diff, inline)]

From cc7fe5ebbec0c3524e5aad938d9ec296d9d48844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:40:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix broken links to Freedesktop notifications spec

* doc/lispref/os.texi (Desktop Notifications):
* lisp/notifications.el: Replace broken developer.gnome.org links
with specifications.freedesktop.org.
---
 doc/lispref/os.texi   | 2 +-
 lisp/notifications.el | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi
index 1995fd9fb2a..e1e52fa8238 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/os.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/os.texi
@@ -2913,7 +2913,7 @@ Desktop Notifications
 
 @item :category @var{category}
 The type of notification this is, a string.  See the
-@uref{https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/#categories,
+@url{https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/notification-spec-latest.html#categories,
 Desktop Notifications Specification} for a list of standard
 categories.
 
diff --git a/lisp/notifications.el b/lisp/notifications.el
index 984ddbec5e9..f35b29d7850 100644
--- a/lisp/notifications.el
+++ b/lisp/notifications.el
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 ;;; Commentary:
 
 ;; This package provides an implementation of the Desktop Notifications
-;; <https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/>.
+;; <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/latest/>.
 
 ;; In order to activate this package, you must add the following code
 ;; into your .emacs:
-- 
2.43.0

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Thanks,
-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 29.1.90 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
 version 1.18.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2023-12-20 built on tia
Repository revision: a453fd796dbd1a0e3c982446bcb7f7634ab495c7
Repository branch: wt/emacs-29
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101009
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid

Configured using:
 'configure 'CFLAGS=-Og -ggdb3' --prefix=/home/blc/.local
 --program-suffix=-29 --enable-checking=all
 --enable-check-lisp-object-type --with-file-notification=yes
 --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-x'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY
INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM
LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
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  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
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Message #8 received at 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67939: 29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:48:09 +0200

> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:19:16 +0100
> From:  "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> The old links are broken, but is the new one in the patch too long?
> Is this suitable for emacs-29?

Documentation changes, especially where the current text is simply
wrong, are always welcome on the release branch.

Thanks.

Message #11 received at 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67939: 29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:39:51 +0100

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

Hi Basil,

> The old links are broken, but is the new one in the patch too long?

Looks OK to me.

> Thanks,

Best regards, Michael.

Message #14 received at 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 67939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67939: 29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:55:40 -0800

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> The old links are broken, but is the new one in the patch too long?

I don't think we can do anything about that, can we?

> Is this suitable for emacs-29?

So please install on emacs-29, thanks.

Message #19 received at 67939-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 67939-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67939: 29.1.90; Broken links to Freedesktop notification spec
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:59:04 +0100

close 67939 29.3
quit

Stefan Kangas [2024-01-10 13:55 -0800] wrote:

> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
>> The old links are broken, but is the new one in the patch too long?
> I don't think we can do anything about that, can we?

Maybe the reason devs don't read documentation is because they find long
links intimidating.

> So please install on emacs-29, thanks.

Done, and sorry for the delay.
Thanks,
-- 
Basil

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