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404 link for /Term/ANSIColor.html should go to CPAN or PERLdoc

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
perl
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The broken link is in static/documentation/ack-v3.10.0-man.html at line 943, where an a element points to /Term/ANSIColor.html. Start by confirming that the same link appears in the v3 and 2.14 man pages, and check whether those pages are generated or hand-edited. Change the href to an offsite URL such as https://metacpan.org/pod/Term::ANSIColor in each affected file. Done when no local /Term/ANSIColor.html link remains in the manpages.

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Description

In latest man page (and all v3 and 2.14 manpages on website also), link for Term::ANSIColor is obviously intended to link one of the authoritative copies but is local absolute.

static/documentation/ack-v3.10.0-man.html
943:onscreen.  It uses the colors available in Perl's <a href="/Term/ANSIColor.html">the Term::ANSIColor manpage</a>

link should be to offsite e.g. https://metacpan.org/pod/Term::ANSIColor or https://perldoc.perl.org/Term::ANSIColor

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