Links in the documentation are invalid or unsupported

Bug #185837 reported by Christopher Yeleighton
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
console-tools (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: console-tools

Regarding the content of the directory /usr/share/doc/console-tools:
the URLs mentioned there should be updated, removed or at least marked as invalid because they are not valid any more.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:03:02PM +0100, Krzysztof ??elechowski wrote:
>
> Dnia 24-01-2008, Cz o godzinie 21:00 +0100, Yann Dirson pisze:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:38:59PM +0100, Krzysztof ??elechowski wrote:
> > > Regarding the information in the README file:
> > >
> > >
> > > > You may find more information at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/
> > >
> > > This URL is obsolete; that page redirects to
> > > <http://membres.lycos.fr/ydirson/en/lct/>
> > > which redirects again to <http://www.altern.org/ydirson/> (HTTP 404)
> >
> > Hm, even that URL is very old. These are all old locations for
> > http://lct.sourceforge.net/
>
> So why does the tutorial refer back there?

The site and the tutorial have not been updated since ages. I am not
any involved more in lct - the current maintainer for the debian
package has taken the lead, and does not use the sf site.

Revision history for this message
J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr) wrote :

The pages have been moved. I don't think this is an Ubuntu bug.

Changed in console-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
status: Fix Released → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

How is it not an Ubuntu bug if we're shipping links that don't work?

Changed in console-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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