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[PATCH] Update URL of help section on GNU website

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From: Tobias Quathamer <toddy <at> debian.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Update URL of help section on GNU website
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:28:36 +0200

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Hi,

the help section on www.gnu.org has moved. Please consider to apply the
attached patch which uses the current URL.

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Quathamer | Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the
Hamburg, Germany | same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>
To: Tobias Quathamer <toddy <at> debian.org>, bug-standards <at> gnu.org,
	webmasters <at> gnu.org
Cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update URL of help section on GNU website
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:11:28 +0200

[ adding bug-standards and webmasters ]

Hello Tobias,

* Tobias Quathamer wrote on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 05:28:36PM CEST:
> the help section on www.gnu.org has moved. Please consider to apply the
> attached patch which uses the current URL.

The right action to take for this is to complain to the web master to
move the page back.  The gethelp URL is documented in the Maintainer's
Guide as well as in the GNU Coding Standards, and recommended to be
listed in program --help output.  Updating all programs will take years,
and doesn't sound like a smart move to me (sorry for the pun).

Alternatively, at least standards.texi and maintain.texi should be
adjusted as well.

Thanks,
Ralf

Message #11 received at 7239 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>,
	Tobias Quathamer <toddy <at> debian.org>, bug-standards <at> gnu.org,
	webmasters <at> gnu.org, 7239 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7239: [PATCH] Update URL of help section on GNU website
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:38:15 -0600

tag 7239 + notabug
close 7239
thanks

On 10/19/2010 12:11 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ adding bug-standards and webmasters ]
>
> Hello Tobias,
>
> * Tobias Quathamer wrote on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 05:28:36PM CEST:
>> the help section on www.gnu.org has moved. Please consider to apply the
>> attached patch which uses the current URL.
>
> The right action to take for this is to complain to the web master to
> move the page back.  The gethelp URL is documented in the Maintainer's
> Guide as well as in the GNU Coding Standards, and recommended to be
> listed in program --help output.  Updating all programs will take years,
> and doesn't sound like a smart move to me (sorry for the pun).

It looks like coreutils (and indeed, all clients of the gnulib module 
version-etc) can breathe a sigh of relief that the web redirect has been 
setup so that http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/ again works.  As such, I'm 
using this mail to close the coreutils bug report.

I find it interesting, however, that standards.texi refers to the short 
URL, while maintain.texi refers to the longer 
http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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