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
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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 -- Jonathan Dowland [email protected] https://jmtd.net
