Bug#653268: www.debian.org: lists.debian.org/completeindex.html - broken links to archives

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

reassign 653268 lists.debian.org
thanks

On 25.12.2011 17:10, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> > From page:
>
>         http://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html

Which says "You may submit bugs against the list archives using the 
lists.debian.org pseudo-package or contact the maintainer at 
listarchives@debian.org."; reassigning.

> Lists like:
>
>         debian-bugs-closed
>         debian-bugs-dist
>         debian-bugs-forwarded
>         debian-bugs-rc
>
> Contain link (underlined):
>
>         You can link to the most recent page in the archives for this 
> list.
>                             ================
>
>         E.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-bugs-closed/recent
>
> All these links return following error.

They also say:

"This mailing list has no archive.
The list either isn't archived at all (on this server), or it can't be 
archived publically, or it hasn't received any messages to be archived 
yet."

The fact that a list which isn't archived - and says so on the pages 
you're complaining about - doesn't have a working "most recent archive" 
link doesn't seem like a bug.  Maybe the link shouldn't appear for 
non-archived lists, but that's a different issue.

> I didn't check other links,

I'd have thought that doing so was exactly the sort of thing to do 
before submitting a bug report - checking a list that actually has links 
to archived posts on that page, for instance.  YMM, and apparently does, 
V.

> but this may be a problem in all the mailing list pages.

It's not.  Try the link on http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/ for 
instance.

Regards,

Adam