Re: Fw: Re: broken links in the apt manual's area

Hi,

Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It has been long since I did this ...
> 
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 10:00:27PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > debwww/cron/parts/7doc
> > 
> > Ok. That's somewhat heavy for me, I fear.
> 
> OK.  Anyway, I created the current state.
>  
> > Summary:
> > 
> > The not-working links pointed to
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-guide/apt-guide.de.txt
> >
> > and
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-offline/apt-offline.de.txt
> 
> Excuse me.  I am a bit confused and I need you to re-explain things to
> me.  Which page are you looking at!
> 
> apt-guide is not listed in https://www.debian.org/doc/
> 
> I see it in English page as https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals
> 
> It only lists HTML pages.  (Maybe you can blame me for this.)

Now the txt variants are there again at 
https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals.
(I have removed them for the time being, and yesterday re-activated them.)

At the moment the txt variants are all dead links.

> 
> The German page does not even list apt-doc files.
> 
> Can you tell me where you find such links?  When I made these, I
> followed what used to be. (Or I thought I did so.)
> 
> > but the files are now under
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-guide/guide.de.txt
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-offline/offline.de.txt
> 
> Yah... not just German but all other languages.  I did not want to
> change their file name.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Osamu
> 
> PS: Your patch on the BTS seems to achieve what you wish.  But why do we
> have to change it into what you suggest?  Is there any negatives?  (I am
> neutral.  I am just asking this as question.)

Because we have dead links for txt versions at the moment :-)


Holger