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Bug#133896: marked as done (packages.debian.org: redirects for moved package pages)

Your message dated Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:12:39 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#133896: www.debian.org: wishlist: redirects for moved package pages
has caused the Debian Bug report #133896,
regarding packages.debian.org: redirects for moved package pages
to be marked as done.

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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archive, and see which ones are no longer valid.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,

/* era */

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        Hi!

 Loooooong time it was written:

* era eriksson <era@iki.fi> [2002-02-14 14:59:32 CET]:
> 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.

 Rather, the URL these days doesn't contain the section anymore. :)

> 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 archive, and see which ones are no longer valid.

 Link validation is run on www.debian.org and we have people going
through the reports and checking on them on regular basis.

> 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.

 The new packages site is running since a pretty long time now and
didn't contain the section for just as long. At times there are still
reports about broken links, and we might go through the misguided links
at some point (once #599425 is fixed), so keeping this one open
additionally doesn't gain us much at this point in time.

 Still, thanks a lot for your report and your interest in improving
things!

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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