Bug#133896: www.debian.org: wishlist: redirects for moved package pages
Package: www.debian.org
Version: 20020214
Severity: wishlist
A few times in the last few months, packages which were announced in
Debian Weekly News were moved to a different category, or perhaps
occasionally removed from the distribution (I haven't usually had the
desire to hunt down the new location for these).
It would be beneficial if moved packages could have the old package
page left in place, with a redirect to the new location.
As a starting point, you could run a link validator on all links
to URLs within http://packages.debian.org/ in the Debian Weekly News
archive, and see which ones are no longer valid.
More generally, I think this would be a useful addition to the
procedure for maintaining pages on packages.debian.org -- there must
be hundreds or thousands of sites elsewhere which have broken links
into the package system.
Thanks for considering this,
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-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux there 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
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