> Yes, and the requirement that the URL+DISTNAME together should give
> valid URL without need to special case the missing trailing slash.
> 
> I.e. if MASTER_SITES is http://site and DISTNAME=pkg-1.2, the fetch
> would attempt to take http://sitepkg-1.2.tar.gz , which is obviously
> invalid.

Note that we were discussing HOMEPAGE, not MASTER_SITES.

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