• Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

    From Will Mengarini@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 9 07:20:01 2024
    * Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@gmail.com> [24-12/08=Su 16:54 +0100]:
    I just noticed some of my browser favorites pointing to Debian News ( http://www.debian.org/News/...) are now dead. I seems all news before maybe 2022 have disappeared, while there were not so long ago (a few months
    maybe?) archives going back to 1997. URLs like https://www.debian.org/News/yyyy/ are all dead before 2022. That's a lot of information either lost or more difficult to find. It's rather surprising, as Debian's web site is almost as stable as the distribution itself. And
    the information, even though old (2021 is not that old), was invaluable to have a glance at Debian's History.

    Moreover, a lot of links from Debian Wiki, pointing to the news, are now dead. For instance, I was looking at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch,
    and all links to "press release" (that are now dead.

    Moreover, the weekly index https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ now has dead links too: everything before 2022.

    I have a question about this: was it done on purpose? If so, I didn't find
    a reference to an announcement, though I didn't search much. Or is it a problem with the site? Is it going to be fixed eventually?

    This is very disturbing. At first I misread it as "Google News", and
    thought "well, yeah, it's *Google*"; but anybody administering Debian
    should be wiser than that.

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  • From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Jean-Claude Arbaut on Thu Jan 2 23:30:02 2025
    Hi,

    On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 04:54:53PM +0100, Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
    I just noticed some of my browser favorites pointing to Debian News ( http://www.debian.org/News/...) are now dead. I seems all news before maybe 2022 have disappeared, while there were not so long ago (a few months
    maybe?) archives going back to 1997.

    Did you ever report this to the WWW team as advised?

    There is a thread about it on debian-project now, for a different
    reason. Someone has copied in the WWW team there at least.

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/01/msg00000.html

    Thanks,
    Andy

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