Re: [gnu.org #1124055] Broken links from stow manual to specific chapters

Adam Spiers <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:06:42 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Therese,

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 12:46:20PM -0400, Therese Godefroy via RT wrote:
>> [[email protected] - Ven. Jul. 01 03:57:11 2016]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> links from:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow-1.3.3.html
>>
>> to chapters are broken:
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/manual.html#SEC1
>>
>> Thank you
>> Best regards
>>
>> Damir
>>
>>
>Hello Damir,
>
>According to Stow's home page [0], the current version is 2.2.2. It
>seems that you are using an obsolete version of the manual.
>stow-1.3.3.html is not accessible from the manual index page [1], and I
>suspect it has been renamed without changing the internal links since it
>wasn't supposed to be used anymore.
>
>The current manual is [2] (entirely on one web page) or [3] (one page
>per node).
>
>Hope it helps. One of Stow's maintainers may wish to add more information.

Sorry for the incredibly slow response.  Somehow I missed this mail
when it first came around.

But anyway thanks a lot for replying - your response is spot on.  I
don't know why the old 1.3.3 version of the manual was still there but
I've removed it to avoid further confusion.