This is sent to both -policy and -mentors, as it's both a proposal and a request for clarification/help. Please Cc me as I'm only subscribed to -mentors.
I am in the process of fixing Mailman, which I've just adopted. There is this bug, #61761 (http://bugs.debian.org/61761 ), where the submitter complains that the mailman logo is broken by default (when not accessing from localhost). This is because the images are in http://localhost/doc/mailman/images/, which is only accessible from localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in, /var/www/mailman-images or something like that. Policy has something to say about this, 12.5: : Web Document Root : : Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web : Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/<package> : directory for documents and register the Web Application via the : menu package. If access to the web-root is unavoidable then use : /var/www as the Document Root. This might be just a symbolic link to : the location where the sysadmin has put the real document root. However, I'd like to put images in something like /usr/share/web-images, since I _might_ end up cluttering around and overwriting files which I shouldn't, by placing the images in /var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks messy, IMHO. So what I propose is that we create a new directory /usr/share/images (or something like that), which is available via the web as http://server/images/. Packages create sub-directories, so that Mailman will have /usr/share/images/mailman/logo.jpg which will be referred to as http://server/images/mailman/logo.jpg . -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
