Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> Angus Leeming wrote: Attached is a patch to news.inc that > Angus> reduces the log of suspect links in news-orig.txt (attached) to > Angus> that in news-new.txt. I've employed a judicious mix of using > Angus> the modern URLs or removing the link markup (sometimes pointing > Angus> out explicitly that the item no longer exists). > > I am not sure we are supposed to rewrite history like that, but why not?
I don't think of it as re-writing history. If the content still exists at another site and I've found it, then I've used the new URL. Else I've just removed the markup. > Angus> There are 3 remaining broken links. These two: > Angus> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz > Angus> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.2.gz were moved into > Angus> the ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.2 directory. > > Angus> I propose changing the links to the directory, so that theose > Angus> interested can still find the files but will see the > Angus> README.bad-bug also. > > Yes. Ok. I'll do that. > Angus> This one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.3.tar.gz > Angus> (Actually, the original talks of > Angus> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.3.tar.gz) just doesn't > Angus> exist. Any reason why not? > > It is present now. I grabbed it from ftp.devel.lyx.org. Ok. I see it. Thanks. -- Angus
