Re: [RFC] deactivating packages.debian.org redirect
Hi Rhonda,
On Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 11:05:17 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Hi!
>
> To fix #514658 for real and properly I plan to deactivate the redirect
> that happens when calling <http://packages.debian.org/> without any
> further argument. This will make the following page to appear:
> <http://packages.debian.org/index>
>
> To not let this be a regression I plan to update the
> templates/html/homepage.tmpl file to match what we current have as
> content of <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>. I will try to also
> sync in all the translations for it that we have currently - if the
> translation into your language for that page isn't current see this as
> an invitation to update it really soon now!
>
> I can't yet give a proper timeline for when I will actually find the
> time to do it (potential while being offline during the week from 23rd
> to 29th) so feel free to discuss about it, raise your concerns or
> objections (with reasoning!) until next weekend and commit your updates
> that you want to have incorporated.
>
> Of course, like always, patches or other helpful comments about other
> outstanding bugs are always welcomed (please drop the bugs Cc in those
> cases, though).
This sounds like a good solution to this bug.
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