Re: Bug #877367: www.debian.org: Please consider adding redirects for old Policy chapters/appendices
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:54:07AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Laura,
>
> On Wed, Jan 03 2018, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
> > In #876075, we are considering dropping singlehtml output from the
> > debian-policy package. There are numerous other bugs -- such as all
> > footnote hyperlinks being broken -- and upstream sphinx seems to focus
> > their efforts on the multi-page output, which is much better quality.
> >
> > I think we need to resolve that discussion before we can respond to
> > your request for feedback in your message quoted above. Either way we
> > are going to need redirects, but it's not yet clear which.
>
> We have now decided to drop singlehtml output, i.e., drop policy-1.html.
> It is just too buggy and we don't want to continue including it in the
> Debian archive.
>
> Could you switch the web mirrors to use the multipage version, please?
> Then I can drop the file from our releases.
>
> If Sphinx upstream improves the singlehtml output sufficiently that we
> decide to include it in our package again, I don't think we'd want to
> change the web mirrors again.
Why we would not want that ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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