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[GeekSmith <lixo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The best I could come up with was to use a command to grab last year's last release (which should always be a reliable value, right?).  Something like this in the debian rules script:
sed -i 's/@@LASTRELEASE@@/'$(( $(date +%y) - 1 ))'.10/' <file>

Where file is either ubuntu-server-tips or the language-specific version
of that file.  I'm no Makefile magician, so my efforts to actually
implement this were brief.  If I need to put a little more effort into
it, I'd be happy to do so.  As a consolation gift, I've attached a patch
to fix the current problem, though it won't really work for long.

** Patch added: "Update URLs to Ubuntu help site"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fortunes-ubuntu-server/+bug/915651/+attachment/2671233/+files/fortunes-ubuntu-server-0.3-updateURL.patch

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915651

Title:
  Many fortunes point to dead URLs

Status in “fortunes-ubuntu-server” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The following fortunes in /usr/share/games/fortunes/ubuntu-server-tips
  contain URLs that are no longer valid:

  'etckeeper' allows you to save changes you make to /etc in a bazaar
  repository.  Useful to track and revert
  changes. http://tinyurl.com/etckeeper (The URL registered at tinyurl.com points to https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/etckeeper.html.)

  Need a little refresh on networking concept? Take a look at the networking
  section of the server guide.
  https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/networking.html

  Keep your servers time in sync, use the ntpd package.
  https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/NTP.html

  Package updates can be automated on your server using the
  unattended-upgrades package.
  https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/automatic-updates.html

  These could be fixed by pointing to the most recent (or perhaps the
  next) LTS release server guide URL.  Even better would be for the
  installer script to grab the version of Ubuntu from the installation
  and create the URL on the fly.  Maybe I'll submit a patch that does
  this.

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