On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > > Speaking of URLs... > You might have heard that we can now shorten any URL like this: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html > to this: > https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html > > Probably worth adjusting the commit hook, too. > Do you think it's worth it to shorten these, replacing each > "/archive/html/" with "/r/" > > $ git grep -h archive/html|sed 's/^.*htt/htt/' > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2003-03/msg00030.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00326.html>. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00086.html> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2003-05/msg00007.html */ > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00075.html>. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00035.html>. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-06/msg00015.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-07/msg00011.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00213.html > > Attached patches make the comment changes and adjust the log-checking > commit hook to require the abbreviated form.
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