Hi, 在 2020-02-27四的 08:12 -0600，Richard Owlett写道： > On 02/26/2020 04:13 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I followed the link. And, needing more information, I clicked on > > > "Homepage [teejeetech.blogspot.in]" and received the message: > > > > You're about to be redirected > > > > > > > > The blog that used to be here is now at http://www.teejeetech.in/. > > > > > > > > Do you wish to be redirected? > > > > > > Is this a bug or some sort of "man-in-the-middle attack"? > > > How can I safely tell the difference? > > > If it is, how/where do I report it? I've never filed a bug report. > > > > It looks like the timeshift author used to host their blog on Google > > Blogspot, but later moved it to an external domain. There is no attack > > because it happens even when you connect over https. Please report a > > bug against timeshift asking for the Homepage to be updated to the URL > > below, which seems to be the correct location. > > > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > https://teejeetech.in/timeshift/ > > I attempted to submit and got a "SMTP send failure: (421, > b'buxtehude.debian.org: Too much load; please try > again later')." message. > I posted related questions on debian-user. > > > While you are at it, please also file a bug or patch against the DUCK > > tool so that this strange form of redirect gets automatically detected > > and reported. Probably just detecting the phrase "used to be here" > > should be enough. IIRC duck already has a list of "redirect" phrases, > > so you could just patch the list to add that. > > > > http://duck.debian.net/ > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/duck > > > > I looked at, but did not really comprehend, the available documentation. > The first said that duck could be run locally. I attempted to install. > It wanted to install over 100 otherwise useless packages. I aborted. > As I have spent >50 years in assorted tech support roles, I'll not > attempt to fix something I know nothing about. > P.S. Linux is not my strong suit ;/!
Sometimes I observe a huge gap between regular users and developers and this
thread looks like an example. I have helped to submit the related bug against
package timeshift requesting to update homepage.
Unfortunately the homepage field as displayed in the "stable" suite ("buster
(stable) (utils): System restore utility") can never be updated unless the
Release Team is willing to accept a stable update for package solely for
updating homepage information (which is extremely unlikely to happen,
especially when the old homepage is a redirection instead of a defunct site).
If you need up-to-date information about packages in Debian, please either use
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/timeshift or look at "Sid" suite on
packages.debian.org instead of "Stable" suite.
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Regards,
Boyuan Yang
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