duck have another separator after URL
Package: duck
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 09:51:25PM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-09-03 at 21:25 +0100, Peter B wrote:
> > @Phil
> >
> > Another test you could consider adding to your reviews is duck.
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/duck
> >
> > Easy to run, just type duck in top of the source tree.
> > Silence indicates success.
> >
> > Its prone to false positives with "parked domains" & email addresses,
> > but works well in finding dead links, 404s,
> > and use of http instead of https
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
>
> Peter,
>
> Thanks for putting this out there.
And I was blunt enough to make a bugreport about it.
> An interesting thought, but the output is mangled by the addition of ':' to
> the end of links. Makes all links 404 if you attempt to right click on them
> in a terminal and open them.
>
> Example...
>
> I: debian/copyright:62: URL:
> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/: INFORMATION
> (Certainty:possible)
>
> The ':' is part of the link in the terminals I have tried. A solution here
> would be to replace ': ' with ' - '.
I suggest to replace the ': ' with ' : '.
> I would consider using the application if some work was to be done on it.
I know. Hence my reason to contribute to free software.
> Regards
> Phil
Groeten
Geert Stappers
--
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