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Bug#906518: qa.debian.org: Missing manpages webpage links to seemingly dead project



Great point I totally missed that before.  I'll contact them!

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:02 PM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:03 AM Stephen Gelman wrote:
>
> > It seems that the "Missing Man Pages Project" [1] linked to from the missing manpages qa page [2] is no longer an active project.  The project page linked is gone (and seems to have been gone since 2013 at least) and I can't seem to find any replacement for it.  Therefore, it seems that the link, along with the suggestion to submit man pages to it, should be removed.
> >
> > [1] http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html
> > [2] http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html
>
> The link is 403, which implies that this is caused by (umask)
> misconfiguration rather than removal. Instead of removing the link, I
> suggest contacting the maintainer of the page and asking them about
> the status. Their blog is active and they list their contact
> information on the front page of their website.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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