[Pkg-octave-devel] Homepage URL of Forge packages seems to have changed

[Julien Bect]

Le 12/06/2017 à 11:22, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I just realized that for most if not all of our Forge packages, the URL
> in the Homepage field of debian/control is no longer valid.
>
> Apparently it is because a trailing slash is now required. For example,
> currently for octave-optim we have…
>
> Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/optim
>
> …which no longer works (404 error).
>
> However, it works if one adds a trailing slash (http://octave.sourcefor
> ge.io/optim/). By the way, one is automatically redirected to a secure
> URL.
>
> I am not familiar enough with the Forge website, so I don't know if
> this should be considered as a bug to be fixed on that side, or if we
> should update all our packages. Any opinion by people more familiar
> with the topic?

Hello Sébastien,

I have no idea, but I am CC'ing the OF admins.

@++
Julien