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  Debian News before 2022 have disappeared Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@gmail.com> - 2024-12-08 17:00 +0100
    Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-12-09 07:20 +0100
    Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2025-01-02 23:30 +0100
      Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com> - 2025-01-03 07:50 +0100

#275404 — Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

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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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* Jean-Claude Arbaut <arbautjc@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.

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#276309

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 04:54:53PM +0100, Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
> 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.

Did you ever report this to the WWW team as advised?

There is a thread about it on debian-project now, for a different
reason. Someone has copied in the WWW team there at least.

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/01/msg00000.html

Thanks,
Andy

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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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#276328

Forwarded this thread there now too

Den tors 2 jan. 2025 kl 23:27 skrev Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 04:54:53PM +0100, Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Did you ever report this to the WWW team as advised?
>
> There is a thread about it on debian-project now, for a different
> reason. Someone has copied in the WWW team there at least.
>
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/01/msg00000.html
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> --
> https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>

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