Bug#198781: www.debian.org: Broken link on packages.debian.org

[Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:58:51PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I got a report this morning that
>   http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/bitchx.html
> contains a broken link.  If you look down at the bottom there are two links
> to the .orig.tar.gz:
> 
> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/main/i/ircii-pana/ircii-pana_1.0-0c19.orig.tar.gz
> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/i/ircii-pana/ircii-pana_1.0-0c19.orig.tar.gz
> 
> I'm guessing that the first one should be to http.debian.org, not both to
> security.debian.org... (the second link is correct).

Hmm, the fault lies in the pages.pl script, line 261. When there are
more than one source directories it should choose the name of the
server by the source dir and not only by the newest one.

But my actual question is: Should we provide both links?
I only incorporated the newest one in my new version of p.d.o but it would not
be too hard to change to the old behavior. Is there a good reason to
do this?

Gruesse,
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