Bug#133896: Broken links to "new and noteworthy packages" in DWN back issues
As reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/133896>, some back issues of
DWN have broken links to (then) "new and noteworthy" packages. It
appears that packages will get moved to a different section from time
to time, meaning that the URLs you have posted for those packages will
no longer work.
Bug #133896 is tagged "wontfix" which I interpret to mean that the
www.debian.org are not willing to handle these broken links with
redirects, and/or fix broken links to "new and noteworthy" packages in
the web archive of DWN.
In order to prevent similar breakage in the future, do you think you
could use URLs of the form <http://packages.debian.org/<package>>
rather than an explicit link into unstable/<section>/<package>? This
will also allow users to see when a package enters testing (and
eventually, stable) if they use a link from an old issue of DWN.
Thanks in advance for considering this,
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