Re: Please restore pages you deleted unilaterally

Hi Thomas,

On Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM GMT, Thomas Lange wrote:
> at the end of September I've proposed the transparent solution to use
> chronicles.debian.org for the old pages, so there will be no change for
> the user beacause the old URLs will still work.
> But unfortunately neither you nor Jonathan had implemented this until
> now. Jonathan said on Nov 2nd that he would work on Debian things
> soon, but nothing had happended so far.

To be clear, I have begun work to support the removal of news from 2022. 
The first step is to get that content built and added to the Chronicles 
site, after which, I would work on the HTTP redirects.

I have hit some problems in generating the site content: The Chronicles 
site is forked from the main website source.  My next intended step was 
to reach out to you/your team for advice on getting past the problems I 
have hit, and to understand what kind of fixes or improvements you would 
accept to the webwml repository (the problems I am hitting are all from 
that repository). For the delta for a recent rebuild (of exactly the 
same content as the last time I built it) has newly missing translations
and lots of timestamp changes (build time) which I would like to not 
have. Were it welcome, I'd also like to move further away from recursive 
makefiles, so Make's dependency tracking could be more useful, and 
there'd be fewer serialisation/blocker points for parallel building.

I have not begun to work on supporting the removal of Release team 
content, because it was abundantly clear (to me) that Cyril did not want 
that content removed anyway, and until a resolution was found there, I 
didn't feel it was appropriate to be involved.


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