NetBSD Problem Report #57673

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From: campbell+netbsd@mumble.net
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Subject: iconv(3) man page has broken link to mailing list archive
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>Number:         57673
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       iconv(3) man page has broken link to mailing list archive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 21 14:30:00 +0000 2023
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 21 15:05:01 +0000 2023
>Originator:     Taylor R Campbell
>Release:        current
>Organization:
The NetBSD Convdation
>Environment:
>Description:
The iconv(3) man page has the following link to explain the iconv const inconsistency issue:

https://www5.opengroup.org/sophocles2/show_mail.tpl?&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=7404

The link presumably worked on 2013-01-04 when it was added to the man page, or perhaps on 2004-11-11 when it was cited by https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/11/12/0000.html, but unfortunately the link is dead now, and it was never archived by the Internet Archive.
>How-To-Repeat:
man iconv
>Fix:
Yes, please!

The austin-group-l archive appears to be archived at mail-archive.com now: https://www.mail-archive.com/austin-group-l@opengroup.org/  So perhaps someone can do some spelunking through the history to find what message this might have been.

>Audit-Trail:
From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/57673: iconv(3) man page has broken link to mailing list archive
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:02:16 +0200

 Hi,

 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-docs/2021/08/16/msg000585.html
 has a link to the new Open Group archives - which require signing up
 to Austin Group.  The archiv on mail-archive.com only goes back to
 2016 whereas the mail in question was posted in 2004.


   Harold

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