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'ubunet' project name should redirect to 'ubuntuone-servers'

Asked by Paul Sladen

If the interweb already has an existing link to:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunet/+bug/375345

and the project named in the base URL is renamed, then the existing link will now be *broken* generating an unhelpful "Lost something?" error page. Ideally Launchpad should just do the right thing(tm) and return a permanently-moved redirect including the new project name; in this case:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375345

This could probably be done by the existing bug URL canonicalisation code simply being run for a *all* +bug/NNNNN link requests.

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) said : 		#1

The solution you proposed is problematic because we want to capture the relation between a bug and one of the targets in which it manifests in the URL. However, there's a much simpler solution that will work for other objects. Launchpad should rewrite the URL for a renamed project.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) said : 		#2

One way of fixing this would be (as I suggested in bug 317136 for a different reason) to make https://launchpad.net/bugs/NNN the canonical non-redirecting URL for any bug report in its first, and usually only, context.

See also bug 153763, the equivalent problem for disabled projects rather than renamed ones.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#3

Launchpad does support this feature. The person who requested the project rename should have also requested an alias to enable the redirect.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) said : 		#4

There are URLs *already* out there on the web, and they are now 404'ing.

This is a bug, not a question!

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Paul Sladen (sladen) said : 		#5

For absolute clarity. This bug report is/was recording the requirement for a generic fix for all occasions of broken URLs when a project is renamed.

It is absolutely _not_ a request to the administrators of one particular running Launchpad instance to retrospectvely add a workaround for one particular project.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#6

This bug was coverted to a question twice.