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

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

Speaking of URLs...
You might have heard that we can now shorten any URL like this:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html
to this:
  https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html

Probably worth adjusting the commit hook, too.
Do you think it's worth it to shorten these, replacing each
"/archive/html/" with "/r/"

$ git grep -h archive/html|sed 's/^.*htt/htt/'
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2003-03/msg00030.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00326.html>.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00086.html>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2003-05/msg00007.html */
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00075.html>.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00035.html>.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-06/msg00015.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-07/msg00011.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00213.html

Attached patches make the comment changes and adjust the log-checking
commit hook to require the abbreviated form.

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