Re: octave forge secs1d, 2d, 3d repos

[Olaf Till]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Carlo de Falco wrote:
> 
> > On 21 Jul 2017, at 21:09, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Carlo De Falco [mailto:address@hidden
> >> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 9:11 AM
> >> To: JohnD
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: octave forge secs1d, 2d, 3d repos
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On 21 Jul 2017, at 14:14, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> I was just looking though some of the octave forge packages and
> >>> notices that the links to the repos for secs1d, 2d, 3d packages gives
> >>> a error 404
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> what links? those packages are now here:
> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/secs/ci/default/tree/
> >> c.
> >> 
> > 
> > I was clicking on the repository link for them from
> > https://octave.sourceforge.io/packages.php, which attempts to open
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/secs1d/ etc
> 
> 
> Oh, I see, thanks for noting this.
> 
> I don't know how to change those links.

We assume that there is one repository per package. So you could
e.g. combine these packages into a single 'secs' package and provide a
single package-html.

> They were recently added and don't 
> seem to be controlled from the package itself.
> 
> B.T.W. I see other links are probably wrong...
> I don't think for external packages such as, e.g., LTFAT 
> or ODEPKG the link should be pointing at the sourceforge 
> clone, but rather at the actual development repository.

Except for the link based on the Url: field in DESCRIPTION, there
should only be internal links included, since only of these locations
we have direct information, so we can keep the web site consistent.

Olaf

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