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  • Bug#1109609: www.debian.org: please restore historic News items until t

    From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 20 21:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.www

    Package: www.debian.org
    Severity: normal
    Tags: patch

    Hello,

    This is the bug to properly request the restoration of the historic News
    items that were removed about 6 months ago in commits e92471ba and
    be8c189a, until the content is hosted permanently elsewhere and
    redirects are put in place to preserve the established URIs.

    See also discussion at <https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e92471ba4917f0ec62d22e04229928e5531698f4>,
    <https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/07/msg00007.html>, <https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00030.html>.

    Restorative MR is here: <https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/merge_requests/1044>

    As I've wrote elsewhere, I am committed to working on a solution that
    satisfies the debian-www's team to simplify the present-day website,
    *and* preserve the old content and their established URIs, but I urge
    you to restore them in the meantime.


    Thank you!

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  • From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 18:20:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.www

    Following Thomas's advice/roadmap[1], I've created a preliminary / proof-of-concept website to house the deleted News (and potentially
    other material in future). This is not -- yet -- a permanent, production service. I am in active conversations with DSA about proper hosting and
    the httpd redirect side of things.

    https://chronicles.debian.net/

    Example archived news page

    https://chronicles.debian.net/www/News/1997/19971211

    Note that this is generated using the main site's sources and build
    tooling, so is dressed in the main site's theme, header and footer. This
    is somewhat confusing and will be improved in time.

    Since discussion on this issue was spread across several mailing lists I
    am going to stick to updating the bug only to avoid sharding any
    discussion further.

    Best wishes

    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00074.html

    --

    👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland
    ✎ [email protected]
    🔗 https://jmtd.net

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