On 19/09/17 22:48, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 19/09/17 01:31, Paul Eggert wrote: >> I installed the attached patches to switch Coreutils to prefer HTTPS URLs >> when >> they work. The first patch is so long that it's compressed. The remaining >> HTTP >> URLs are for sites where I couldn't get HTTPS to work, either because they >> didn't respond or their certificates had expired. > > For my reference, the http:// links in --help and man pages > will auto update to https:// when using an autoconf updated with: > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=d3dcd589 > Or we could override PACKAGE_URL (temporarily) in AC_INIT as per: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-10/msg00051.html > > p.s. syntax checks for this one are fixed in: > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a608f1e
I just pushed the following to ensure we use https:// in --help https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.28-27-gada1cae
