Feed Channel Link Wrong with More then one Feed Display

For that matter, the generated channel link contains the first path, whether that path is from a page or an RSS feed. If the feeds are preceded by a page display, the link contains the URL of that page.

Per the RSS 2.0 specs for required channel fields, link is supposed to be "The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel." So the URL of the feed itself is not an appropriate URL for the channel link. But only the person programming the view would know whether the first page display having a path is an appropriate link value for the channel link.

Therefore, an RSS display requires two path fields: the path of the RSS display (currently specifiable) and the path of the channel link (currently assumed and therefore possibly wrong, with no way to specify the correct channel link path).

So this bug report would better specify the need to add a channel link path for each RSS display and to never assume what that path is.

If we want to fix the RSS feed to get the correct url of the feed, we need to change:
$link_display_id = $view->display_handler->get_link_display();
to:
$link_display_id = $view->display_handler->view->current_display;

However I agree to above comment and think we should follow the RSS standard. Therefore I created a patch to fetch the site front page url for the channel link field.

The 2 year old patch in #2 to theme.inc does not apply to the latest views 7.x-3.x-dev.

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  }
  $vars['title'] = check_plain($title);

  // Figure out which display which has a path we're using for this feed. If there isn't
  // one, use the global $base_url
  $link_display_id = $view->display_handler->get_link_display();
  if ($link_display_id && !empty($view->display[$link_display_id])) {
    $path = $view->display[$link_display_id]->handler->get_path();
  }

  if ($path) {
    $path = $view->get_url(NULL, $path);
    $url_options = array('absolute' => TRUE);
    if (!empty($view->exposed_raw_input)) {
      $url_options['query'] = $view->exposed_raw_input;
    }

    // Compare the link to the default home page; if it's the default home page, just use $base_url.
    if ($path == variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node')) {
      $path = '';
    }

    $vars['link'] = check_url(url($path, $url_options));
  }

  $vars['langcode'] = check_plain($language->language);
  $vars['namespaces'] = drupal_attributes($style->namespaces);

error: patch failed: theme/theme.inc:885
error: theme/theme.inc: patch does not apply

Patch rerolled.