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Re: Please, don’t “rename” files



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Le 14/07/2013 12:23, Holger Wansing a écrit :
> David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> wrote:
>> Le 14/07/2013 04:17, Holger Wansing a écrit :
>>
>>> Why keep an old […] URL?
>>
>> Because we can’t change external links pointing to our own website, and
>> making existing URL fall into 404 is just bad practice. Please, provide
>> the needed Redirect setup to deploy in all www.d.o mirrors before
>> breaking any further URL (unless you’ve double checked there is no
>> external link pointing to the old one).
> 
> So would it be a possible compromise of this pros and cons, to keep
> the old file and copy it to the new name, too? Resulting in the old
> (probably outdated) content sitting in <old_url> and the new content in 
> <new_url>?

No, as already pointed before, proper 301 Redirect is the way to handle
URL move.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster#line-10 points to the apache
conf, please send your patches to webmaster@d.o before moving any
further URL.

> Another aspect of this discussion: how to deal with companies which have
> requested to be removed from the list? Removing their file would also result
> in an 404 on debian site.

That seems like the way to go, yes: 404 is the proper way to state the
content doesn’t exist any more.

Regards

David


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