maint: modernize URLs

A lot of this is converting http: to https:.
Also, gmane went away, so remove URLs that no longer work and
are not easy to figure out what they were.
Some of this stuff is so old that it no longer matters anyway.

7 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tests/misc/ls-time.sh b/tests/misc/ls-time.sh
index d42eb24a2..5149187a1 100755
--- a/tests/misc/ls-time.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/ls-time.sh
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ else
 failed ls ctime test -- this failure is expected at least for SunOS4.1.4
 and for tmpfs file systems on Solaris 5.5.1.
 It is also expected to fail on a btrfs file system until
-http://bugzilla.redhat.com/591068 is addressed.
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/591068 is addressed.
 
 In the output below, 'c' should have had a ctime more recent than
 that of 'a', but does not.
diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh b/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh
index 53581617d..2edd34ca1 100755
--- a/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ vm=$(get_min_ulimit_v_ env $prog %20f 0) \
 mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo
 
 # Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, to avoid triggering this bug
-# http://bugs.debian.org/481543#77
+# https://bugs.debian.org/481543#77
 export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0
 
 # Terminate any background process
diff --git a/tests/misc/seq-long-double.sh b/tests/misc/seq-long-double.sh
index 4eca0a757..f202046f7 100755
--- a/tests/misc/seq-long-double.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/seq-long-double.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ print_ver_ seq
 getlimits_
 
 # Run this test only with glibc and sizeof (long double) > sizeof (double).
-# Otherwise, there are known failures:
-# http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14939/focus=14944
+# Otherwise, there are known failures.
 cat <<\EOF > long.c
 #include <features.h>
 #if defined __GNU_LIBRARY__ && __GLIBC__ >= 2
diff --git a/tests/misc/sha1sum-vec.pl b/tests/misc/sha1sum-vec.pl
index 88d31a2fe..26f91c775 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sha1sum-vec.pl
+++ b/tests/misc/sha1sum-vec.pl
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ use strict;
 @ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3;
 
 # The data from which these tests were derived came from here:
-# http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/shs/sha1-vectors.zip
+# http://web.archive.org/web/20060505234703/http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/shs/sha1-vectors.zip
 
 my @Tests =
     (
diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh b/tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh
index 520d3aba6..71eb5ec44 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ done
 # ordinary redirection on the 'sort' command.  This is intended to
 # work around bugs in OpenBSD /bin/sh, and some other sh variants,
 # that squirrel away file descriptors before closing them; see
-# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00075.html>.
+# <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00075.html>.
 # This test finds the bug only with shells that do not close FDs on
 # exec, and will miss the bug (if present) on other shells, but it's
 # not easy to fix this without running afoul of the OpenBSD-like sh bugs.
diff --git a/tests/misc/sort.pl b/tests/misc/sort.pl
index 4d6aff980..0fa1e9c12 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort.pl
+++ b/tests/misc/sort.pl
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ my @Tests =
 ["22a", '-k 2,2fd -k 1,1r', {IN=>"3 b\n4 B\n"}, {OUT=>"4 B\n3 b\n"}],
 ["22b", '-k 2,2d  -k 1,1r', {IN=>"3 b\n4 b\n"}, {OUT=>"4 b\n3 b\n"}],
 
-# This fails in Fedora 20, per Göran Uddeborg in: http://bugs.gnu.org/18540
+# This fails in Fedora 20, per Göran Uddeborg in: https://bugs.gnu.org/18540
 ["23", '-s -k1,1 -t/', {IN=>"a b/x\na-b-c/x\n"}, {OUT=>"a b/x\na-b-c/x\n"},
  {ENV => "LC_ALL=$mb_locale"}],
 
@@ -383,8 +383,7 @@ my @Tests =
 ['obs-inval', '+1x', {EXIT=>2},
  {ERR=>"foo\n"}, {ERR_SUBST => 's/^$prog: .*/foo/'}],
 
-# Exercise the code that enlarges the line buffer.  See the thread here:
-# http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/11006
+# Exercise the code that enlarges the line buffer.
 ['realloc-buf', '-S1', {IN=>'a'x4000 ."\n"}, {OUT=>'a'x4000 ."\n"}],
 ['realloc-buf-2', '-S1', {IN=>'a'x5 ."\n"}, {OUT=>'a'x5 ."\n"}],
 
diff --git a/tests/misc/stty.sh b/tests/misc/stty.sh
index e549adb65..54404e1b7 100755
--- a/tests/misc/stty.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/stty.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ for opt in $options; do
   # on Linux 2.2.0-pre4 kernels.  Also since around Linux 2.6.30
   # other serial control settings give the same error. So skip them.
   # Also on ppc*|sparc* glibc platforms 'icanon' gives the same error.
-  # See: http://debbugs.gnu.org/7228#14
+  # See: https://bugs.gnu.org/7228#14
   case $opt in
     parenb|parodd|cmspar) continue;;
     cstopb|crtscts|cdtrdsr|icanon) continue;;