Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: > On 12-01-07 at 09:15am, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> writes: >>> ]] Daniel Baumann >> >>>> it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install >>>> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a virtualhost >>>> definition. the reason why nobody would do that, is, that it's >>>> just wrong and unreasonable to do such a thing (where e.g. aliases >>>> and directory directives are a reasonable thing to do for a web >>>> application).
>>> Having, say, mediawiki, ask using debconf if you would like a vhost >>> set up with the host name wiki.$domain would be completely sane, >>> IMO. If you don't want it, just tell the config script no. >> Agreed, provided that the default action is no. > I too feel that no webapp package should add vhosts by default. > But does it violate Policy? > The package jwchat currently enable a vhost by default, I believe. I'm not sure that it really violates Policy, mostly because we don't have any Policy guidance about web applications at all right now. But I think it's fairly obvious that it's not a sane thing to do to camp on a piece of URL space without any consultation with the local administrator. Even more so than file system space under /srv, the URL namespace served by a web server is frequently under tight control and needs to be carefully managed according to rules and conventions that the package has no way of knowing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb07csut....@windlord.stanford.edu
