| golinux | KatolaZ: There is an old package search function on devuan.org that needs to be redirected to pkginfo. | 15:39 |
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| golinux | I have have put a message on the main page https://devuan.org/os/packages/ but google keeps finding references to specific packages that bypass this entry point. | 15:40 |
| golinux | The links are broken on those pages because they are outdated and unmaintained. | 15:41 |
| golinux | jaromil or Centurion_Dan ^^^ I'm hoping one of you can find a minute to do this. | 15:45 |
| KatolaZ | golinux: why we don't just remove the pages? | 17:18 |
| golinux | Because that will fubar all the google entries. | 17:26 |
| golinux | They would all come up as 404. | 17:27 |
| golinux | That's worse than having a page come up with broken links. | 17:28 |
| golinux | Any calls to https://devuan.org/os/packages/* needs to go to pkginfo. | 17:29 |
| KatolaZ | better a 404 than a wrong info | 17:31 |
| KatolaZ | we could redirect to pkginfo.devuan.org but not to the specific page | 17:32 |
| KatolaZ | (and, we shouldn't become the slaves of what google wants to show about devuan, IMHO) | 17:33 |
| KatolaZ | information is mutable | 17:33 |
| KatolaZ | if it changes and google cannot find it, it's a google's problem | 17:33 |
| golinux | KatolaZ: It's a script that generates those pages. There are not individual pages. I never really understood how hellekin set it up. Let me go poke around a bit to find the pieces | 17:42 |
| KatolaZ | golinux: I don't have access to the web server where devuan.org is served | 17:46 |
| golinux | KatolaZ: The pages are here: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-www/tree/beta.devuan.org/source/pages/os/packages/list | 17:46 |
| KatolaZ | I guess the easiest would be to redirect anything under that to pkginfo.devuan.org | 17:46 |
| KatolaZ | anyway, we CANNOT remain enslaved by a google search | 17:46 |
| KatolaZ | seriously | 17:47 |
| KatolaZ | page disappear all the time | 17:47 |
| golinux | Yes. I can delete that directory if you like. | 17:47 |
| KatolaZ | as soon as they 404, google would remove them | 17:47 |
| KatolaZ | if they don't, it's their indexing engine that sucks | 17:47 |
| golinux | I could rewrite the info on all those pages to send them to pkginfo. | 17:48 |
| golinux | Should have thought to do that before. | 17:48 |
| KatolaZ | no golinux | 17:49 |
| KatolaZ | you should not rewrite anything | 17:49 |
| KatolaZ | information becomes obsolete | 17:49 |
| KatolaZ | and disappears | 17:49 |
| KatolaZ | all the time | 17:49 |
| KatolaZ | and this is *normal* | 17:49 |
| golinux | OK then. I leave it to you to do whatever is best. | 17:50 |
| KatolaZ | either we remove those pages, giving a 404 | 17:50 |
| KatolaZ | or redirect all of them to pkginfo.devuan.org (the homepage) | 17:50 |
| golinux | I would prefer option2. When people have gotten used to pkginfo, then the pages can be deleted | 17:52 |
| KatolaZ | again, information becomes obsolete, and this is just *normal* | 17:53 |
| KatolaZ | :) | 17:53 |
| KatolaZ | you can't use any more a link to a debian thing from 5 or 6 years ago | 17:53 |
| KatolaZ | even the wiki is all broken | 17:53 |
| KatolaZ | and it's some sort of "official| documentation | 17:54 |
| golinux | You are admin on gdo so remove what you want then. | 17:54 |
| golinux | I know in the past jaromil has preferred redirection | 17:54 |
| golinux | Time for the Wed jitsi meet | 22:29 |
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