Le Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:24:39AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:09:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Still, having /usr/share/www as a document root does not prevent complex > > packages to be fragmented between /usr/share, /usr/lib/cgi-bin/, /var/lib/, > > /var/tmp, /var/run and /etc. Maybe you can double-check how many web servers > > are able to cope with that before starting to invest a lot of time. > > Otherwise, > > since shipping configuration files in /etc/webserver/conf.d will still be > > necessary for these packages to work, there will little benefit in moving > > files > > to /usr/share/www. > > I don't understand this argument. Sure, complex packages will be split > in several dirs, our policy states the rule for that to happen. The > whole point of this standardization is to have a single URL prefix under > which _entry_points_ for shipped web applications can be found, no > matter how the applications are deployed on the filesystem. I found such > a goal worthwhile by itself and orthogonal to the other concern you > raise.
Hi Stefano, the lintian error dir-or-file-in-var-www exists for a long time, and I believe that most packages with active maintainers have already been split according to the FHS. What I question is whether it is worth the effort to move the content of /usr/share/<package> to /usr/share/www/<package>: - How many purely static websites do we distribute as Debian packages? (Note that /usr/share/doc/<package> is already served as http://localhost/doc/package/) - How many dynamic websites will start to work out of the box without the need for a specific configuration for each webserver? I checked at the web application I maintain (emboss-explorer), and in its particular case, it would still need an apache.conf file. That is not enough to make statistics, so I am just asking if there will be many packages that can take advantage of the proposed reorganisation. [And unfortunately source.debian.net looks borken again…]. Of course, if the use of /usr/share/www/<package> is optional, everybody wins. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
