Package: duck Severity: normal Version: not_known_by_submitter 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 -- Silence is hard to parse
