From 3bf440815095eb4c630b75c09bc22894a2be762f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:39:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: arrange for better URLs in generated announcement
 message

* cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Define.  I had been correcting the generated
URLs by hand, just before the announcement.  This is better.
---
 cfg.mk | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 6f75c0f..8730ed1 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 # Used in maint.mk's web-manual rule
 manual_title = gzip: the data compression program
 
+# Use the direct link.  This is guaranteed to work immediately, while
+# it can take a while for the faster mirror links to become usable.
+url_dir_list = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
+
 # Tests not to run as part of "make distcheck".
 local-checks-to-skip =		\
   sc_bindtextdomain		\
-- 
2.47.2