Re: RFS: rush

[Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>]

tisdag den 21 december 2010 klockan 18:46 skrev Lars Buitinck detta:
> 2010/12/21, Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>:
> > Anyway, I have modified the watch file to use HTTP instead of FTP.
> > The new package has been uploaded to mentors.debian.net and it
> > awaits further critisism.
> 
> Maybe nitpicking here, but wouldn't it be wiser to use
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rush/ as the url? When I saw
> gnu.org.ua, the first thing I did was check if this was really an FSF
> site (which it isn't). savannah clearly states that rush "is part of
> the GNU Project".

Considering that the origin and development is tied to "gnu.org.ua"
I found

    http://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/release/rush/

to be the proper location. It is a secondary fact that the author is
also tied to FSF and thus a kind of mirror is located at "savannah.gnu.org".

You are suggesting that

    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/rush/

be preferrable in the watch file, in spite of this not being the home
of the project. Personally I am not convinced that dropping the Ukrainian
origin is an honest thing to do. How is it "wiser" to refer to FSF/GNU.org
than to gnu.org.ua?

I am a recent fellow project member with the author Sergey Poznyakoff
within GNU Inetutils, so I could of course ask him on this matter. 


Best regards,

Mats Erik Andersson