On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad.
>
> I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more
> completely and clearly stated at
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html.
That page references ${arch}/. If we remove that link, then we could remove
the ${arch}/index.html files, too... nothing else links there AFAICT.
> Inaccurate and incomplete information (translations missing) is worse
> than none.
When translations are missing, the english version gets displayed.
> > If we put that in webwml, that means creating one dir per architecture, with
> > a Makefile and an index.wml file. Aside from the cruftiness issue :) the
> > problem is that other arches will most probably get out of sync with i386.
> > If they're generated from a single source, that's less likely to happen.
>
> Actually, if this is solely for the web site, and you *really* want
> this, then it would be quite easy to do it in WML without adding to
> the maintenance burder, since it could share the same functions that
> generate the documentation matrix on
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html.
It's still five subdirs...
> Another alternative is to redir from someone try to do a dir listing
> at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/arch or
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/arch/<arches> to
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/.
Redirections are done thought apache's httpd.conf files, right? If so, we
can't do it, the mirrors won't have it.
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