Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:12:07PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Actually, which version of policy were you looking at? This was fixed
> > > in version 3.5.0.0, AFAICT.
> > >
> > > Closing this report.
> >
> > Uh, this is what I got from the the aforementioned FTP site :P I noticed
> > this when I updated our scripts that copy that stuff to the web server.
>
> This doesn't make any sense to me. I just downloaded
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/policy.txt.gz
> and it has the correct references in it. The version at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> is correct as well.
>
> Where exactly are you finding this incorrect URL?
Like I said in the initial submission, and like the subject says, in the
menu policy, and in the mime policy. Not the policy manual itself, but the
two sub-policies.
> > > (This is actually an FTP ref., not an HTTP ref. Maybe we should also
> > > put in HTTP refs.)
> >
> > No, I was suggesting that you replace FTP with HTTP. HTTP tends to have a
> > smaller startup lag.
>
> In the text version, we have:
>
> It may also be found on the Debian FTP site ftp.debian.org as the
> file /debian/doc/package-developer/mime-policy.txt.gz, or in the
> equivalent location on your local mirror.
>
> Would be difficult to write that as http://ftp.debian.org/... ;-)
Why? :) It's still a FTP site... besides, you can just skip that part and
say the URL. :)
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