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Re: switch to HTTPS: URLs in Coreutils source and doc


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: switch to HTTPS: URLs in Coreutils source and doc
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:39:19 -0800
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On 19/09/17 22:48, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 19/09/17 01:31, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I installed the attached patches to switch Coreutils to prefer HTTPS URLs 
>> when 
>> they work. The first patch is so long that it's compressed. The remaining 
>> HTTP 
>> URLs are for sites where I couldn't get HTTPS to work, either because they 
>> didn't respond or their certificates had expired.
> 
> For my reference, the http:// links in --help and man pages
> will auto update to https:// when using an autoconf updated with:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=d3dcd589
> Or we could override PACKAGE_URL (temporarily) in AC_INIT as per:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-10/msg00051.html
> 
> p.s. syntax checks for this one are fixed in:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a608f1e

I just pushed the following to ensure we use https:// in --help
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.28-27-gada1cae



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