First off, I'm not sure what this discussion has to do with this proposal? It might just be a tangent prompted by seeing a mention of this part of Policy, which is fine, but I'm worried that I didn't explain the proposal very well, since this seems unrelated.
Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > Le Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:35:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Despite its age, this bug is rather straightforward and is something we >> really should have fixed years ago. The current wording around >> locations of CGI programs implies that subdirectories of >> /usr/lib/cgi-bin may not be used, but of course this is very widely >> used in packages already in the archive and works with a typical web >> server configuration. Here is a patch that explicitly allows this. > will web servers find the CGI scripts automagically in > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/<package>? That's the implication of this section. Web servers should be configured to serve that location by default. This is pretty widely used already in Debian. > There were discussions along those lines on debian-devel a couple of > monthes ago. I suggest to seriously consider to drop the requirement to > separate the CGI scripts from the other files of the packaged websites. I think this is a different question and a different bug. It's probably something that we should discuss as part of incorporating the webapps policy. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
