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Redirect the old Packaging Guide

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#345 opened on Dec 5, 2025

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Description

Redirects need to be put in place from the old Packaging Guide:

  1. Page-level redirects from v1.0: https://canonical-ubuntu-packaging-guide.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/1.0/
  2. Site-level redirects from v2.0-preview (latest): https://canonical-ubuntu-packaging-guide.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/

In addition, the following should be (site-level_ redirected to this docs set:

Finally, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Spec/UbuntuPackagingGuide should link to this docs set.

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Research direction
Set up page level and site level redirects from old Packaging Guide URLs to the new documentation set, and update the wiki link.
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