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.

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 6f75c0f27508cf0f255ff271dc06556cecaea0ff..8730ed190fd3115339f7cc4ff849e76a0b9deae8 100644 (file)
--- 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            \