On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 03:30:57PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > For reference, the rationale given for the removal of the old news pages > is stated in a comment to the corresponding commit, cf. > <https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e92471ba4917f0ec62d22e04229928e5531698f4#note_556263>: > | The old issues of DWN are still available in their original location on > | the Debian mailing lists. www.debian.org/News contains two links to the > | mailing list archive. But on the web page, we want to show only the > | relevant news to our users, which are the recent ones from the last > | years, but not the very old ones. > > HTH, > Flo - who also thinks that removing the old content is wrong but also > thinks that it is up to debian-www to make a call on that, and who now > just wanted to clarify the references from commit to thread and vice versa
In that case, it seems like a possible compromise might be to keep the old files in place to avoid breaking links from elsewhere, but no longer list them from the index? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
