Aliases and redirects when using translation content files?

In my index.md I have some aliases redirecting old url’s to our homepage

I copied the index.md to index.fr.md and rebuilt but realized the aliases in the index.fr.md file are taking priority and redirecting to the example.com/fr/ index page, which seems like the expected behavior.

So in the index.fr.md file I set the aliases to be prefixed with the default language code /en/some-page-to-redirect/ is this how aliases should redirect or is there another method?

Thanks

https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2452