Broken links in developers-reference as published on the Debian's website

Lev Lamberov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Holger,

thanks for your attention to the bug report, but my report was about a
different issue. Let me explain.

First, let's take a look at developers-reference as it pubished on the
Debian's website. Say, in English [web-en]. It incorrectly links to
translations as index.{fr,de,it,ru,jp}.en.html, such files do not exist.
Any other translation, say, French [web-fr] links to translations as
index.{de,it,ru,jp}.fr.html, such files do not exist.

[web-en] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.en.html

[web-fr] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.fr.html

Second, let's take a look at developers-reference package. All links
there are correct, that is in _any_ language links point to
index.{fr,de,it,ru,jp}.html.

Third, let's take a look at developers-reference source code. In English
we currently have as follows:

<para>
If you want to print this reference, you should use the <ulink
url="developers-reference.pdf">pdf version</ulink>.  This page is also
available in <ulink url="index.fr.html">French</ulink>, <ulink
url="index.de.html">German</ulink>, <ulink
url="index.it.html">Italian</ulink>, <ulink
url="index.ru.html">Russian</ulink>, and <ulink
url="index.ja.html">Japanese</ulink>.
<!-- TODO: Maybe better: "This document has originally been written
in English.  Translations into different languages are available." -->
</para>

Again, links are correct and point to index.{fr,de,it,ru,jp}.html. And
the same holds for any translation.

Broken links are only in developers-reference published on the Debian's
website. Since links in the source code and in the developers-reference
package are correct, then it is the content negotiation problem. Looks
like the webserver incorrectly rewrites links.

Let me stress that my report is _not_ about links to English, or links
in English. It is about _broken_ links in _any_ developers-reference as
published on the Debian's website. So, my bug report is about
www.debian.org, not developers-reference. Please, reconsider it and
reassign #912724 to www.debian.org.

Regards,
Lev
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