Bug#133896: Broken links to "new and noteworthy packages" in DWN back issues
era eriksson wrote:
> 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.
This is true, unfortunately. The web team needs to fix these links
manually. The best you could do is drop a line to Jens Seidel
<tux-master@web.de>.
> 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.
No redirects, yes. Needs to be fixed manually on occasion.
> 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.
I thought about this already, but it would introduce another indirection
which I don't like. Since normally the section isn't changed too often
and not several times within the beginning of a package, the current
situation seemed acceptable.
Regards,
Joey
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