On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote: > There has always been a valid reason for changing it. The last one > (slink->potato) was to split the single archive directory into > main,contrib,non-free. There are no further changes planned, but changes
So? That change was made for non-technical reasons, no legacy support was done because nobody cared to do it. There is absolutely no reason the old URLs could still not be workable today. This is purely a policy problem, commit to keeping the current URLs valid for a long time and it goes away. Jason
