Bug#631480: Generate short URLs/links for the standard bug view

Package: debbugs
Severity: wishlist

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Hi,

most of the time, people are going to look at and to link at URLs like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123456
e.g. the plain bug view without any options. This is also what
http://bugs.debian.org/123456
redirects to.

I think it would be much nicer if
 a) The redirect is done internal, e.g.  http://bugs.debian.org/123456
 will stay in the URL line, making it more likely that people will use
 that when they want to link to a certain bug.
and maybe even
 b) The BTS also generates the short version version everywhere where it
 links to a bug without further option.

Not a great deal, but makes the BTS a more aesthetic and slicker place
to be :-)


Greetings,
Joachim


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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