Stale Link: http://www.debian.org/doc/

2008-08-05 Thread abel 
The link on this page http://www.debian.org/doc/ in the Manuals for
GNU/Linux in general section :

a
href=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/users-guide/;
Linux Users' Guide/a

is a stale link according to this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/README which
refers to tldp.org. 

The link could be changed to:
 
a href=http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html;Introduction
to Linux/a

or the link could be deleted entirely.

verification:
[1] - http://www.debian.org/doc/todo
Urgent TO-DO list:
* Ruthless stale documentation reaping.

[2] - http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
version:1.27
author: Machtelt Garrels, tille
last update:Jun 2008
ISBN:   1596821124
available formats:  
1. HTML (read online)

[3] - http://www.debian.org/doc/ 
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[4] -
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/users-guide/
site does not lead to a guide just a directory index apparently
created by Apache

[5] - http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/README
README for docs/linux-doc-project
What you'll find here: Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
This area is OUTDATED!
Go to http://tldp.org for latest updates!



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Re: Stale Link: http://www.debian.org/doc/

2008-08-05 Thread Josip Rodin 
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:26:14AM -0400, abel wrote:
 The link on this page http://www.debian.org/doc/ in the Manuals for
 GNU/Linux in general section :
 
 a
 href=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/users-guide/;
 Linux Users' Guide/a
 
 is a stale link according to this:
 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/README which
 refers to tldp.org. 
 
 The link could be changed to:
  
 a href=http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html;Introduction
 to Linux/a
 
 or the link could be deleted entirely.
 
 verification:
 [1] - http://www.debian.org/doc/todo
   Urgent TO-DO list:
   * Ruthless stale documentation reaping.
 
 [2] - http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
   Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
   version:1.27
   author: Machtelt Garrels, tille
   last update:Jun 2008
   ISBN:   1596821124
   available formats:  
   1. HTML (read online)

Yes, but in that same page, you can find the old Linux Users' Guide
listed as older / unmaintained (but still pertinent), and their link
goes to the ibiblio.org location that we link.

If we're going to replace the document with something else, a more
qualitative explanation would be appreciated.

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