Bug#979319: invalid link rel="canonical" on bugs.debian.org

On 05/01/2021 4:46 pm, Maxim Nikulin wrote:
> 
> My knowledge of perl is not enough to tell if the following commit fixed 
> this issue or some earlier one:
> 
> e47d145410 Don Armstrong 2018-08-20 03:31:42
> mousify bugreport and short status templates

I have realized that <link rel="canonical" ...> HTML tags are properly 
formatted on bugs-devel.debian.org. So fixing bugs.debian.org is matter 
of releasing next debbugs version or backporting the fix to the 2.6 
branch and deploying the new version.

I've found an earlier commit that added `links_only` argument inside the 
template:

<link rel="canonical" href="<: bug_links(bug=>$bug_num,links_only=>1) :>">

<https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/commit/377afb9d91>
canonical should just have the link
2018-03-09T18:17:24Z Don Armstrong

So the bug was fixed on master 8 years ago.

A duplicate of this bug has been reported saying that broken href 
attribute causes issues with sharing links to bug reports in social media:
<https://bugs.debian.org/1042014>
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:39:02 UTC