Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared
* Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@gmail.com> [24-12/08=Su 16:54 +0100]:
> I just noticed some of my browser favorites pointing to Debian News (
> http://www.debian.org/News/...) are now dead. I seems all news before maybe
> 2022 have disappeared, while there were not so long ago (a few months
> maybe?) archives going back to 1997. URLs like
> https://www.debian.org/News/yyyy/ are all dead before 2022. That's a lot of
> information either lost or more difficult to find. It's rather surprising,
> as Debian's web site is almost as stable as the distribution itself. And
> the information, even though old (2021 is not that old), was invaluable to
> have a glance at Debian's History.
>
> Moreover, a lot of links from Debian Wiki, pointing to the news, are now
> dead. For instance, I was looking at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch,
> and all links to "press release" (that are now dead.
>
> Moreover, the weekly index https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ now has dead
> links too: everything before 2022.
>
> I have a question about this: was it done on purpose? If so, I didn't find
> a reference to an announcement, though I didn't search much. Or is it a
> problem with the site? Is it going to be fixed eventually?
This is very disturbing. At first I misread it as "Google News", and
thought "well, yeah, it's *Google*"; but anybody administering Debian
should be wiser than that.
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