Re: Report URLs
Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> writes:
> I'm sure this has been somewhere discussed, but is there some serious
> reason for using names in URL? I have two non ascii chars in name and it
> breaks almost every link to lintian.debian.org, each in different
> way. Some time ago, lintian.debian.org contained unknown chars replaced
> by _ (I guess that utf-8 made one char look as two), this lead to [1].
> Now the last part seems to be removed so the link is [2], but QA
> website[qa] still points to old[1]. Meanwhile PTS[pts] still points to
> bad location which includes full name [3].
> Now I ask: would not be better to use maintainer email in URL instead of
> name? I guess fancy chars in email are quite rare...
Yeah, lintian and the QA pages don't agree on the name munging and this is
on my list to try to figure out what to do about it. Switching to e-mail
addresses probably isn't a bad idea, but there are a ton of places that
link to lintian pages that would all need to change.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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