Package: trac Version: 0.10.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch This is a copy of a bug report I made upstream:
> By default Trac appends "- Trac" to each title page (top of header.cs). > While this improves Trac's overall visibility, it also causes massive > search engine pollution. With a trac, trac here and a trac, trac there, > here a trac, there a trac, everywhere a trac, trac. > > Looking for proper information about Trac is now impossible. Any request > is highly polluted by unrelated Trac installations. > > For instance, I was looking for a possible script to paste the Timeline > information on an IRC channel. Quite naturally, my first try was "trac > IRC bot" on Google. Alas! What I get are hits for Trac installations of > the rbot, EnvBot or IRC Bot Workbench projects, which have absolutely > nothing to do with Trac. > > Another example was just before submitting this bug report. I was > wondering whether anyone else was annoyed by the pollution, so quite > naturally I looked for "trac page title" on Google to see whether the > problem with page titles was mentioned somewhere. And as you can see, > there are hundreds of results, none of which have anything to do with > Trac. > > And yes, I know how to play with inurl:, intitle: and site: keywords > when doing Google searches. They just don't work well enough against > that kind of search engine pollution. The ticket, at http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/7162, is marked as a duplicate of http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/6628 and was also discussed in http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/3730 but was eventually closed as WONTFIX with no justification and with laughable workarounds such as a javascript snippet. I believe that if upstream is reluctant to fix this problem, Debian at least could help by not shipping a polluting file by default. Trivial patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages trac depends on: ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o pn python-clearsilver <none> (no description available) pn python-pysqlite2 | python-s <none> (no description available) pn python-subversion <none> (no description available) ii python-support 0.8.1 automated rebuilding support for P ii subversion 1.4.6dfsg1-4 Advanced version control system Versions of packages trac recommends: ii apache2 2.2.8-4 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.8-4 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD pn python-setuptools <none> (no description available)
10_remove_trac_suffix_from_title.dpatch
Description: application/shellscript
