Re: [PATCH www] impressum: fix broken relative paths in subdirectories

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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Johannes Süllner <johannes.suellner@mailbox.org> writes:

> On Fri Dec 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM CET, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
>> Nice catch!  I wonder if automation can reduce the chance of similar
>> problems.  Could a template engine be used to reduce repetition?
>> Or at least check that all of the internal links are valid?
>
> I wondered the same after finding these broken links recently (I just
> procrastinated sending a patch), and looked for tools to find broken
> links. I found a few, the one I liked most is lychee
> (https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee).
>
> Using Nix, it can be run on the homepage repository as follows:
>   nix-shell -p lychee --run 'lychee --root-dir $PWD .'
>
> Doing this, some broken external links can also be found.
> Some external links are being reported as broken erroneously for me,
> namely to gnu.org and doi.org.
> However, there are also two links which are broken:
>   1. On logo/index.html: https://hazelnot.xyz/
>   2. On motivation.html: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/
>
> The website of Hazelnot seems to be offline since about June 2024, see
> https://web.archive.org/web/20240301000000*/https://hazelnot.xyz/
> The documentation of Saltstack moved to a new domain.
> Qubes moved their docs too, although they have redirects in place.
> I have a patch for this already which will follow in a minute.
>
> Regarding the broken internal links, I wonder if we would be better
> off using absolute links to avoid copy-paste errors in the future?

That would prevent navigating the website locally during development, so
I'd rather not.  It probably does make sense to move to a static site
generator at some point though, especially if the website acquires more
content.

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