Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

Hello Philipp,
Am Sat, May 31, 2025 at 03:11:11PM +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern:
> On 5/9/25 1:45 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:33:55PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >> I think about removing myself from the debian-www team.
> >> Better no longer be part of it, otherwise people might blame me for such 
> >> decisions ... 
> > 
> > Please don't. Breaking things is unavoidable in complex enough systems,
> > and is OK if you are around to fix them when people who care notice
> > the breakage.
> > 
> > Give yourself a break.
> 
> As far as I could see there was never a reason given beyond the terse
> one in [1] and there had been no followup to the various threads about
> the content removal.
> 
> While I understand the desire to cleanup webwml, it feels weird that we
> do that to the news content - vs. not showing old news entries in
> frontpage listings. Usually news archives should be preserved.

Yes, and with this "cleanup" all translations are gone as well, and
they are not in easily accessible archives. That's what troubles me.

> Now you could say that we could arrange for redirects to archive.org
> when you hit those pages, but that has not been set up either.

If you do so, please add the translations there (back) as well and
make it properly i18n.

Greetings

           Helge

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