GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 514882
Links to GTK+ 2.6 spec on gtk.org broken (for LSB)
Last modified: 2008-05-15 10:37:03 UTC
The LSB has included GTK+ 2.6 since LSB 3.1, and the specifications link to copies of the 2.6 spec on gtk.org. Evidently, after the web site redesign, those links were removed, and our links now end up at a generic spec page that doesn't seem to have the old information anywhere. I'm told that things like API specs now belong on library.gnome.org, which is why I'm filing that bug here. If I'm wrong, please let me know where the best place to get this fixed is. Anyway, would it be possible to restore the old links, or host the old specs at a new link? If the latter, we can update the LSB, but it would still be helpful to have a redirect from the old location. For reference, here's the page that contains our links to GTK+ 2.6: http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Desktop-generic/LSB-Desktop-generic/normativerefs.html#STD.GLIB And the links it contains, which no longer work: http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/atk/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gdk/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gdk-pixbuf/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gobject/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/index.html http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/pango/index.html
FWIW, this is bug 1925 in the LSB bugzilla: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1925
I see there's been no action for a while now. Can someone take a look, or is there a better way to get this addressed?
Sorry I forgot about this as the GTK+ website was being worked on. I added the appropriate documents to library: - http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.6/ - http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.6/ - http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/2.6/ - http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk-pixbuf/2.6/ - http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/1.9/ (1.8 and 1.9 were shipped with GTK+ 2.6, I can add 1.8 if you want) - http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/1.8/ This can be closed as far as library is concerned; either you update LSB with those new URLs, or I reassign this bug to GTK+ so they add proper redirects.
Jeff?
Sorry, passed on your question to some people, and discussion went on, but didn't follow up. It would be much better if we could get the redirects, because the links are in documents that are already published. Going forward, we will update the links to point to the new locations.
Thanks for your reply; reassigning to GTK+ and Cc'ing Martyn Russell as he lead the work on the new website.
Hmm? These links ALL work (on gtk.org). We did make sure that there were redirects in place for this sort of thing. As for the library.gnome.org API versions, they are slightly ahead of the ones we have on gtk.org. I am not sure if this is acceptable or not but either way, ALL links here seem to work? Closing bug.
Just verified that the gtk.org links now work, and they're closer to what was included in the LSB. So if everything for 2.6 stays as it is, we're good.