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bug #45449: man pages suggest proprietary software (youtube)

Submitted by:  Jookia <jookia>
Submitted on:  Wed 01 Jul 2015 12:54:28 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Ole Tange <tange>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Wed 01 Jul 2015 03:06:55 AM UTC, comment #2:

GNU Parallel used tinyogg from 20100722 to 20130722. Tinyogg was modified in 2011 and ultimately shut down in 2013. Here is what Joshua Gay wrote on the matter:

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Joshua Gay wrote:

> Hi Ole,
>
> While I was updating your entry in the new (not yet launched) directory,
> I noticed that you have the following links in your documentation:
> "Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ or
> at http://tinyogg.com/watch/TORaR/ and http://tinyogg.com/watch/hfxKj/"
>
> Unfortunately, <http://tinyogg.com> was shutdown, and now all it does is
> redirect a person to the youtube version of the video. Osama's reasoning
> is that YouTube will soon have HTML5/WebM support for videos by default,
> so there isn't a need for him to host Ogg versiosn of YouTube videos.


Here is what Osama wrote: https://osamakhalid.com/blog/2011/07/04/tinyogg-end/

Based on the same reasoning I see no need to change the man page.

If, however, you feel strongly about this you should feel free to make your own version of tinyogg.com. If you promise not to take it down after only a couple of years (which tinyogg.com did - thereby breaking all links to it and contributing to link rot), then I will be happy to link to that.

Ole Tange <tange>
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Wed 01 Jul 2015 12:56:45 AM UTC, comment #1:

Savannah perhaps ate my bug report, so I'll try again:

Error:

Jookia <jookia>
Wed 01 Jul 2015 12:54:28 AM UTC, original submission:

Error text:

The man pages suggest using youtube at the start and in the bug reporting section:

Jookia <jookia>

 

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