jmtd → log → Debian Chronicles

I recently learned that, about 6 months ago, the Debian webteam deleted all news articles from the main website older than 2022. There have been several complaints from people in and outside of Debian, notably Joe Brockmeier of LWN, and this really sad one from the nephew of a deceased developer, wondering where the obituary had gone, but the team have not been swayed and are not prepared to reinstate the news.

It feels very important to me, too, that historic news, and their links, are not broken. So, I hastily built a new Debian service, The Chronicles of Debian, as as permanent home for historic web content.

$ HEAD -S -H "Accept-Language: de" https://www.debian.org/News/1997/19971211
HEAD https://www.debian.org/News/1997/19971211
302 Found
HEAD https://chronicles.debian.org/www/News/1997/19971211
200 OK
…
Content-Language: de
Content-Location: 19971211.de.html
…

This was thrown up in a hurry to get something working as fast as possible, and there is plenty of room for improvement. Get in touch if there's an enhancement you would like or you would like to get involved!