Aside dfn panels only contain links that already appear somewhere else in the spec.
These links were extracted and categorized as autolinks when they appeared in the final index of a Bikeshed spec, which essentially did not do anything because the links had already been extracted as autolinks in any case.
The problem is that Respec also uses similar panels (but no <aside>), and Bikeshed sometimes outputs the panels at the end of the document, and not within the index itself as expected in the code. In these situations, the links were extracted a second time, as rawlinks. Not extracting the panels avoids duplication entirely.
Via https://github.com/w3c/reffy/issues/1584#issuecomment-2304730538.
Aside dfn panels only contain links that already appear somewhere else in the spec.
These links were extracted and categorized as
autolinkswhen they appeared in the final index of a Bikeshed spec, which essentially did not do anything because the links had already been extracted asautolinksin any case.The problem is that Respec also uses similar panels (but no
<aside>), and Bikeshed sometimes outputs the panels at the end of the document, and not within the index itself as expected in the code. In these situations, the links were extracted a second time, asrawlinks. Not extracting the panels avoids duplication entirely.