* Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbau...@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.
