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

On Sun, Apr 05, 2026 at 03:10:48PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot for this precision.
I will fix the Debian package. Hopefully Don will fix the website.

Cheers,