On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:01:20PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sat, 11.04.2009 at 08:23:32 -0700, Matt Kraai <kr...@ftbfs.org> wrote: > > forcemerge 523639 522733 > > FWIW, the first bugnumber 523639 that you mention, gives me a bug > report about xcdroast. I guess that this is an oversight (putting in > '3' instead of a '2').
Yes, thanks. It took me an embarrassingly high number of tries to get this to work. > > Thanks for reporting this problem. > > > > Until this is fixed, you can still access the sections of the > > reference by inserting ".en" before the ".html" extension. For > > example, > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/scope.html > > > > becomes > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/scope.en.html > > Ok, thanks for the heads-up. As I see it, this is a problem with the > desire to use Apache's content negotiation, which is imho both fragile > and creates an undesirable hidden dependency on Apache. I'd much prefer > to have an entirely different scheme altogether, selecting the language > manually up front, and then having simple, robust, relative linking of > > file1.html -> file2.html (in HTML, not on the file system!) > > for every language, and do away with content negotiation for good. > > Like > > DR -> Please select your language (or maybe switch via a CGI or > similar): > > en/index.html > en/... > > fr/index.html > fr/... > > etc.pp. > > > Such a scheme could then be served by about any web server. The problem > of inadvertantly overwriting files if the user should desire to install > two or more languages of the DR, would be to include the language-code > directory in the package. I don't know whether we should switch away from content negotiation or not, but I think that it's independent of the issue of broken links to the Developer's Reference. -- Matt http://ftbfs.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
