Re: bugs.debian.org
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:51:26PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > > > > > That address (http://$1/) does not work properly, some links are broken
> > > > > > > (e.g. /Bugs/db/ix/maintainers.html).
> > > > > > The translation you are reading isn't synchronized with the English version,
> > > > > > which no longer contains the broken links.
> > > > > Uhm.. the old bug report URLS don't work anymore?
> > > > Most of them don't, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > That's very bad. There's an ancient adage, told by father webmaster to
> > > their sons webmasters: "URLs are permanent".
> > >
> > > In potato there is at least one tool (bugview, I don't know about
> > > reportbug) that is now broken due to this. I have received one report
> > > already.
> >
> > I'll see if I can set up some rewrite rules to new locations. However, it
> > might not be possible for most things.
>
> Just for the packages' pages would be enough...
I tried it, and it worked (this is my second ever try at writing rewrite
rules):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/Bugs/db/pa/l([^/]+).html$ http://bugs.debian.org/$1
RewriteRule ^/Bugs/db/[[:digit:]][[:digit:]]/([[:digit:]][[:digit:]][[:digit:]]+).html$ http://bugs.debian.org/$1
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