issue2550966: fix suboptimal links in docs.

I think I got the majority of them. Some links still don't resolve
because they are gone and there is no replacement afaict.

Also the check is picking up example links like: https://.../rest and
http://localhost:8017/... which should not be checked but are.

Author: rouilj

COPYING.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+Note links for http://www.zope.com/Marks and  http://www.ekit.com/ are dead.
+
 Roundup Licensing
 -----------------
 

doc/announcement.txt

@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Fixed:
   added.
 - Validate Integer and Numeric type filter parameters rather than
   passing output down to db level. Initial patch at:
-  http://hg.python.org/tracker/roundup/rev/98508a47c126 by
+  https://hg.python.org/tracker/roundup/rev/98508a47c126 by
   Martin.V.Loewis. Numeric test patch applied, Integer code and tests
   developed by John Rouillard.
 - issue1926124: fix crash in roundup_admin migrate option.
@@ -534,11 +534,11 @@ To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
     python demo.py
 
 Release info and download page:
-     http://pypi.org/project/roundup
+     https://pypi.org/project/roundup
 Source and documentation is available at the website:
      http://roundup-tracker.org/
 Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
-     http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
+     https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/mailman/
 
 
 About Roundup

doc/developers.txt

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Design Document`_ and the `implementation notes`_.
 All development is coordinated through two resources:
 
 - roundup-devel mailing list at
-  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/roundup-devel
+  https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
 - The issue tracker running at
   https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/
 
@@ -416,35 +416,35 @@ At run time, Roundup automatically compiles message catalogs whenever
 .. _External hyperlink targets:
 
 .. _alexander smishlajev:
-.. _als: http://sourceforge.net/users/a1s/
+.. _als: https://sourceforge.net/u/a1s/profile/
 .. _cygwin: https://www.cygwin.com/
 .. _emacs: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
-.. _gettext package: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
+.. _gettext package: http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
 .. _gettext module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html
 .. _GNU: http://www.gnu.org/
 .. _GNU mirror sites: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
 .. _issue tracker: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/
 .. _Lokalize: Lokalize
-.. _KDE: http://www.kde.org/
+.. _KDE: https://kde.org/
 .. _linux: https://www.linux.org/
 .. _Plural Forms:
-    http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_150.html
+    http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
 .. _po filetype plugin:
-    http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=695
+    https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/script.php?script_id=695
 .. _PO utilities: https://github.com/pinard/po-utils
-.. _poEdit: http://poedit.sourceforge.net/
+.. _poEdit: https://poedit.net/
 .. _Roundup Source:
 .. _Roundup source distribution:
 .. _Roundup binary distribution:
-    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31577
+    https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/files/
 .. _roundup-devel mailing list:
-   http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/roundup-devel
+   https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
 .. _TAL:
 .. _Template Attribute Language:
    https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALSpecification14.html
 .. _TALES:
 .. _Template Attribute Language Expression Syntax:
    https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALESSpecification13.html
-.. _vim: http://www.vim.org/
+.. _vim: https://www.vim.org/
 .. _ZPTInternationalizationSupport: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ZPTInternationalizationSupport
 

doc/features.txt

@@ -108,6 +108,5 @@ from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
    XMLRPC calls
 
 .. _sqlite: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
-.. _mysql: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
-.. _postgresql: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg
-
+.. _mysql: https://pypi.org/project/MySQL-python/
+.. _postgresql: http://initd.org/psycopg/

doc/installation.txt

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Prerequisites
 =============
 
 Roundup requires Python 2.7 or newer (but not Python 3) with a functioning
-anydbm module. Download the latest version from http://www.python.org/.
+anydbm module. Download the latest version from https://www.python.org/.
 It is highly recommended that users install the latest patch version
 of python as these contain many fixes to serious bugs.
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Windows Service
   You can run Roundup as a Windows service if pywin32_ is installed.
   Otherwise it must be started manually.
 
-.. _Xapian: http://xapian.org/
+.. _Xapian: https://xapian.org/
 .. _Whoosh: https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home
 .. _pytz: https://pypi.org/project/pytz/
 .. _Olson tz database: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ Exim4.
 
   For more Debian-specific information, see suggested addition to
   README.Debian in
-  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343283, which will
+  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343283, which will
   hopefully be merged into the Debian package eventually.
 
 This config makes a few assumptions:
@@ -1114,9 +1114,9 @@ from installation and scripts.
 
 .. _apache: http://httpd.apache.org/
 .. _flup: https://pypi.org/project/flup/
-.. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/
-.. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
-.. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg
-.. _pysqlite: http://pysqlite.org/
+.. _mod_python: http://modpython.org/
+.. _MySQLdb: https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/
+.. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/psycopg/
+.. _pysqlite: https://pysqlite.org/
 .. _`adding MySQL users`:
-    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-users.html
+    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/adding-users.html

doc/mysql.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Prerequisites
 To use MySQL as the backend for storing roundup data, you also need 
 to install:
 
-1. MySQL RDBMS 4.0.18 or higher - http://www.mysql.com. Your MySQL
+1. MySQL RDBMS 4.0.18 or higher - https://www.mysql.com/. Your MySQL
    installation MUST support InnoDB tables (or Berkeley DB (BDB) tables
    if you have no other choice). If you're running < 4.0.18 (but not <4.0)
    then you'll need to use BDB to pass all unit tests. Edit the

doc/postgresql.txt

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ Prerequisites
 To use PostgreSQL as backend for storing roundup data, you should
 additionally install:
 
-1. PostgreSQL 8.x or higher - http://www.postgresql.org/
+1. PostgreSQL 8.x or higher - https://www.postgresql.org/
 
 2. The psycopg python interface to PostgreSQL:
 
-     http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg
+     http://initd.org/psycopg/
 
 
 Running the PostgreSQL unit tests

doc/upgrading.txt

@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ should not affect users of 0.5 installations - but if you find you're
 getting errors from form submissions, please ask for help on the Roundup
 users mailing list:
 
-  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/roundup-users
+  https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-users
 
 See the customisation doc section on `Form Values`__ for documentation of the
 new form variables possible.