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Persistent bikeshed auto-linking to old versions of specifications #5878

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Most noticeable to me with drafts persistently linking to CSS Color 3 for <<color>> but I have also seen annoyingly persistent links to CSS Fonts 3, etc.

To take CSSOM-1 as an example:

<pre class='link-defaults'>
spec:css-color-4; type:value; text:color

and yet

<<color>>

links to Color 3. Is the link-defaults line wrong? Why does it have to be overridden anyway, and where do the defaults come from?

For other auto-links, bikeshed helpfully says it arbitrarily chose one possible link and gives the link-defaults lines to permanently pick a particular option. But for these, it doesn't do that.

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