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bug #59381: [PATCH] tmac/groff_me.7.man: stale URL

Submitter:  Dave <barx>
Submitted:  Fri 30 Oct 2020 12:08:41 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Macro me Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.23.0
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Thu 14 Jan 2021 02:28:50 PM UTC, comment #1: 


commit 6b016ce6f5a58933ab0acb31af86047712c4a8dc
Author: Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 30 00:08:41 2020 +0000

    groff_me(7): Fix bad URL in comment.

    Two years ago, commit ef25e6a7 added a quote to tmac/groff_me.7.man
    sourced to the URL
    https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-November/015412.html.  Even
    with the extraneous / removed, this URL today returns a 404; the correct
    URL now is
    https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2018-November/017033.html.

    This could mean one of two things:

        The URL was mispasted into the groff_me.7.man source
        The URL has changed since 2018

    The former seems far less likely, but is also the preferable
    explanation, because the latter tells us that URLs to that archive are
    not guaranteed to be stable (ironic, for a site archiving discussion
    about preserving electronic history), and the interface does not appear
    to offer a permalink.

    Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59381>.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Fri 30 Oct 2020 12:08:41 AM UTC, original submission:  

Two years ago, commit ef25e6a7 added a quote to tmac/groff_me.7.man sourced to the URL https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-November/015412.html.  Even with the extraneous / removed, this URL today returns a 404; the correct URL now is https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2018-November/017033.html.

This could mean one of two things:

  • The URL was mispasted into the groff_me.7.man source
  • The URL has changed since 2018


The former seems far less likely, but is also the preferable explanation, because the latter tells us that URLs to that archive are not guaranteed to be stable (ironic, for a site archiving discussion about preserving electronic history), and the interface does not appear to offer a permalink.

That, however, is a hypothetical future problem; the current problem can be solved by applying the attached patch.

The URL appears in comments only, which (with bug #55091 deferred) don't even get shipped, so this bug is at the very low end of the "minor" spectrum.

Dave <barx>
Group Member

 

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        Planned ReleaseNone 1.23.0
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        Assigned toNone gbranden
    2020-10-30 barx Attached File- Added groff_me.patch, #50164

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