glibc manual on www.gnu.org is out of date

[Bruno Haible]

Collin Funk wrote:
> > The glibc manual at
> >   https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/index.html
> > is out-of-date (still version 2.38). Whereas the one at
> >   https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/latest/html_node/index.html
> >   https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/2.42/html_node/index.html
> > is up-to-date.
> >
> > Could the one on gnu.org be updated, please?
> 
> I assume the gnu.org link was indexed by Google or some other search
> engine?
> 
> The links on https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ under documentation link
> to https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/ where the updated manuals are.
> 
> That seems better than having to maintain both, in my opinion.

I am asking for three reasons:

  * GNU Gnulib's documentation has hundreds of references to the GNU libc
    manual. I don't really want to change n*100 hyperlinks to refer to
    a host owned by Red Hat when the same documentation ought to be
    available on www.gnu.org.

  * When a Texinfo source file contains a reference
      @ref{Something,,Something,libc}
    the conversion to HTML by 'makeinfo' will create a hyperlink to
      https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Something.html

  * The instructions that every GNU package receives when it becomes a
    GNU package include these two paragraphs:

      Please write or update the web pages about the program, to put in
      https://www.gnu.org/software/<PACKAGE>.  These pages should be the
      main web site for the program, and they should really have the
      information for users, not just a link to another site; please use
      https://www.gnu.org/software/<PACKAGE> whenever you give out the URL
      for the home page of the program.  Please don't set up a "site for the
      program" anywhere else--if you want to do work on additional web pages
      about the program, please put them on www.gnu.org.

      (It is ok to put pages that address developers-only topics on another
      site, and likewise for pages that access databases.)

Bruno