On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 22:40, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
Because at a certain point the number of _old_ names in the docs obscures exactly how to operate the current software. We have tried keeping stuff around, and we are very bad at removing stuff.
This is a good point, but does not attempt to explain why pages should disappear entirely from /docs/current/. As I said in my previous comment, there are lots of ways of doing this right. For example, we could have pages that would disappear instead be replaced by a short page that explains the page is removed and points to the current documentation of the equivalent or replacement features; these hypothetical "useful 404" (or, more correctly, "useful 410") pages don't even necessarily have to be listed in the table of contents. In fact, serving them with a 410 HTTP status code would be a reasonable thing to do.
