• Is debianHELP correct ?

    From Sebul@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 1 08:40:02 2021
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  • From Justin B Rye@21:1/5 to Sebul on Fri Oct 1 10:40:01 2021
    Sebul wrote:
    Please see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/support.en.html#s12.2.2
    At 12.2.2. Webforms
    link to debianHELP is strange.

    Apparently its decay has reached the stage of expired SSL
    certificates, so it's about time debian-faq/support.dbk was trimmed
    back to only point at forums.debian.net.

    <section id="s12.2.2"><title>Web forum</title>
    <para>
    <ulink url="http://forums.debian.net/">Debian User Forums</ulink>
    provides web forums on which you can submit questions about Debian
    and have them answered by other users. (It is not officially part
    of the Debian project.)
    </para>
    </section>

    That would be a minimal fix, but I'd also want to reorganise it now.
    DebianHELP was entirely "third-party", but forums.debian.net is not ("https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/debianuserforums.html") - the
    debian-user mailinglist isn't "official" in that it guarantees an
    authoritative answer from the DPL, or supersedes the NO WARRANTY
    warnings, it's just that it's the "preferred" support channel.
    Perhaps it needs to say something like:

    <section id="s12.2.2"><title>Web forum</title>
    <para>
    Besides the official mailing lists, there are also web forums at
    <ulink url="http://forums.debian.net/">Debian User Forums</ulink>
    on which you can submit questions about Debian and have them
    answered by other users.
    </para>
    </section>
    --
    JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
    sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package

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