Re: Accessing HTML manual on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

Michael Kesper <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:02:07 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Paul,

On 16.07.19 14:17, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:56 PM Michael Kesper <[email protected]> wrote:
> FTR, the English version is available here:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.en.html

Yes, I know but it's not visible to users.
 
>> Why has this been changed?
> 
> It looks like the files from the install manual were renamed from
> index.html.* to index.*.html and the website code was not updated to
> handle this.

Ok, so this seems like an oversight rather than intentional, great. :)
 
>> How can we make selecting languages easier? (I also don't want to change a global
>> browser setting, some other sites are ok to be shown in my language).
> 
> We need to update the code to handle the new filename layout:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/releases/buster/installmanual.wml
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/template/debian/release.wml
> 
> Until that happens:
> 
> A while ago I filed a bug on Firefox about adding a per-site language
> setting, but nothing has happened yet.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545392
> 
> Until that happens:

(we don't hold our breath...)
 
> There is an add-on that implements per-site language settings:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/accept-language-per-site/
> 
> There are addons to make it easier to switch languages:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languageswitch/
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-accept-language-switc/

Thanks for these recommendations, will try what works best.

Bye
Michael

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