On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:37PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:47:36AM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:18:55AM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> > > - more in http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/missing-from-wolkenstein
> [..]
> > * 480 links from en-{gb|us}.html to en.html
> >   => Don't know yet what generates them
> 
> It's Makefile.common
> 
> Actually, these links missing from wolkenstein are actually (714!) dangling
> links on klecker:
> http://www-master.debian.org/~spaillard/dangling-links-on-klecker
> 
> Makefile.common
> [..]
> clean::
>       rm -f *.$(LANGUAGE).html *~ *.forced
> 
> I guess we could just modify it into if "$(LANGUAGE)" "en"
>       rm -f *.$(LANGUAGE).html *.html *.en-us.html *.en-gb.html *~ *.forced
> 
> But what is the point of providing such links ? Serving the en-gb page
> to en-gb clients which don't even accept en ?
> 
> The log says:
> 
> ----------------------------
> Revision 1.48                                                                 
>                                                                               
>                 
> date: 2001-10-30 19:26:06 +0100;  author: treacy;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0;
> Add links for en-us and en-gb. Hopefully this will stop our problems with
> misconfigured browsers. If we decide we don't like this for some reason, we 
> can
> easily undo it. Give it a week or two first, though.
> 
> Note that we may experience problems with the mirrors until they update their
> apache configuration.
> ----------------------------

Tested, requesting en-us or en-gb only makes apache to serve en, as explained 
below:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/content-negotiation.html#better

So I've removed this 10-years old compatibility tweak. 

-- 
Simon Paillard


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