On Sun, 16 May 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:
It's probably a good idea to make an announcment if a package is about
to be dropped, so that others have a chance to maintain it. This would
of course include any prior maintainers. But if the package's maintainer
thinks it should be removed,
reply to bug in which ncsa exits with an error on startup
(sorry it's been so long. this bug got lost in the shuffle somewhere)
Apparently, this problem can be fixed by specifying a group
to run as in /etc/ncsa/httpd.conf. However, ncsa doesn't
seem to actually _run_ as that user/group.
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:57:14PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote:
reply to bug in which ncsa exits with an error on startup
(sorry it's been so long. this bug got lost in the shuffle somewhere)
Apparently, this problem can be fixed by specifying a group
to run as in /etc/ncsa/httpd.conf.
Boa does not have the full-fledged cgi-bin scripting ability that ncsa
has. Scripts might not run under boa that run just fine under ncsa. Ncsa
is a reference web server in many ways and that is why I packaged it in
the first place. Please keep it in the distribution.
I wonder if we need a policy
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Boa does not have the full-fledged cgi-bin scripting ability that ncsa
has. Scripts might not run under boa that run just fine under ncsa. Ncsa
is a reference web server in many ways and that is why I packaged it in
the first place. Please keep it
Christoph Lameter wrote:
I wonder if we need a policy that prior maintainers need to be consulted
before a package is removed. Some other packages have just vanished while
I am busy with this endless dissertation. Hopefully that will be over
soon.
It's probably a good idea to make an
Richard But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed, and
Richard no-one else volunteers to maintain it, then I don't think anyone
Richard should be able to say No, let it sit there and rot instead.
Agreed. We have too many packages that are just there and not being
attended
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:26:18AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Boa is nice as well, but has too many open bugs, and the maintainer
never ever seems to respond.
Unfortunately, that would mean that boa is not maintained upstream,
because Jon Nelson is also the upstream maintainer :(
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On 16-May-99 Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:26:18AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Boa is nice as well, but has too many open bugs, and the maintainer
never ever seems to respond.
Unfortunately, that would mean that boa is not maintained upstream,
because Jon Nelson is also
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