Pierre Labastie wrote:
> On 14/03/2017 12:29, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > Is it BLFS policy to include http  links as well as ftp links?  If
> > so  then the  mutt page  should  also include  http links.   (Just
> > replace 'ftp:'  with 'http:' and  wget downloads the file  with no
> > problem.)
> > 
> My understanding of BLFS policy is  that we give an http (preferably
> https if available) link and an ftp  link, but only one if the other
> is not available.  In this case, upstream only gives the ftp link on
> its download page,

Now that I think  about it I was having ftp  problems with my firewall
and decided  to try  http instead.  I  never checked  whether upstream
actually provided http links, I just kept a note to remind myself that
http also worked.

> In this  case, it  seems that giving  only the ftp  link is  what we
> should do.

That is reasonable.  Thanks for your input!

Regards,

Jeremy Henty
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