Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

From	Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Debian News before 2022 have disappeared
Date	2024-12-08 17:00 +0100
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Hi,

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?

I'm not sure it's the right place to ask, but I didn't really know where to
ask.

Best regards,

Jean-Claude Arbaut

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Debian News before 2022 have disappeared Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@gmail.com> - 2024-12-08 17:00 +0100
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