• Bug#1105214: texinfo: (www.)gnu.org URLs should be in https

    From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to Vincent Lefevre on Tue May 13 15:40:01 2025
    On 2025-05-13 15:26:01 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
    For security, www.gnu.org and gnu.org URLs should be in https.
    At least the info manual and the man pages are concerned.

    (I don't know whether there is already an upstream bug; gnu.org is
    currently down.)

    This seems to have been partly fixed in Texinfo 7.2.

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    Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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    Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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  • From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 13 15:40:01 2025
    Package: texinfo
    Version: 7.1.1-1
    Severity: normal
    Tags: upstream

    For security, www.gnu.org and gnu.org URLs should be in https.
    At least the info manual and the man pages are concerned.

    (I don't know whether there is already an upstream bug; gnu.org is
    currently down.)

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 13.0
    APT prefers unstable-debug
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.11.10-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
    ii libtext-unidecode-perl 1.30-3
    ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-5+b2
    ii perl 5.40.1-3
    ii tex-common 6.19
    ii texinfo-lib 7.1.1-1+b1

    texinfo recommends no packages.

    Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
    ii texlive-base 2024.20250309-1
    ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2024.20250309-1
    ii texlive-latex-base 2024.20250309-1
    ii texlive-plain-generic 2024.20250309-2

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    Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
    100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
    Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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