Bug#1109609: Removing old news from webpages

Hi Thomas,

On Fri Aug 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM BST, Thomas Lange wrote:
> I'm not happy about the additional 50 lines of redirects
…
> Why didn't you have implemented a RewriteCond as I've suggested

I'm sorry you're not happy. I wrote why I didn't think RewriteCond was 
appropriate in [1], before I did the work, and didn't see a reply. 

However, the solution I've gone for suffers from the problem I was 
trying to avoid (www delegating too much responsibility for what is a 
valid www URI to the Chronicles service), so a RewriteCond would be no 
worse from that perspective. Mea culpa, I did this in an incredible 
rush.

There's nothing preventing us from replacing the list with a 
RewriteCond, it just needs someone to do the work. I could do it, but 
there are other Chronicles-related stuff I need to fix first.

> which means that we have to adjust this each year.

The list doesn't need changing at all unless you delete more content. I  
hope you aren't planning to do that, and certainly not on a regular 
basis!

When you do wish to delete stuff, please don't automatically assume we 
will pick it up. It should be a conversation and agreement between the 
two services.

> I've also asked for review by the web team when changing the apache
> config.

Re-reading [2] you did suggest that the webteam could review the MR, but 
I didn't interpret that as "must" (and later forgot about it entirely). 
I iterated on the changes with DSA a few times and that never came up. I 
apologise, and will ensure to run all future www-related changes via the 
webteam.


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00076.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00074.html

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