Re: Fixing debian-reference links on www.d.o

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Quoting "Osamu Aoki" <osamu@debian.org>:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The URL for developers-reference changed (I don't know when).
> >
> > Please find a smart_change script attached to fix the links:
> > * URL /doc/manuals/developers-reference : drop "/manuals"
> > * page names: "ch-" prefix was dropped
> > * anchors: "s-" prefix was dropped.
>
> Yes... it must be someting to do with debiandoc-sgml to docbook-xml
> change.  These should be customizable by xslt parameters.
>
> I updated some wiki pages but as my second thought I should have asked W.
> Martin Borgert for his opinion.  If he think it is best to keep build
> parameters as now, we certainly have to update many URLs.
>
> Martin, is this going to stay?

When I changed the first documents from debiandoc to DocBook I wasn't
aware of the XSL parameters for certain filenames. Later, I added
them in some documents to maintain compatibility with older links.
I personally do not like the prefixes, but maybe I just don't
understand the intention. Dropping the prefixes makes a lot of links
invalid unfortunately (many of them outside of Debian control).