-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:55:33PM +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote: > >>On policy 11.5.4 says: >>"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 doc-base package." >> >>and in policy 12.3 says: >>"Packages must not require the existence of any files in /usr/share/doc/ >>in order to function." >> >>This points that all web applications that uses /usr/share/doc/package >>directory are breaking policy 12.3, so I think policy 11.5.4 must recommend >>other different directory. >> >>Recent works on webapps-common alioth project recommends to use the >>directory /usr/share/PACKAGE/www. >> > > > The current version of the policy we're working on can be found at: > http://people.debian.org/~neilm/webapps-policy/ > > The plan is to get this finalised and get a 1.0 release ready for the > release of Etch, hopefully with all packages compliant. > > As it's a work in progress, it should be considered a 'best practice' > document, rather than an offical policy document. > > Also, as this is a draft, the useage of "/usr/share/PACKAGE/www" may > change. IMO, it's probably not going to, but it may be worth keeping > (main) policy as is until we are in a position to release 1.0 of the > WebApps policy.
No problem for me. But It could give little problems. On one of my machines a was beholden to remove /usr/share/doc directory, it broke my ldap-account-manager installation. > > This could also be a good time to give the webapps list[0] a good plug :) > If you would like to join in, please come help. As well as the policy, > we're creating some helper applications to do tasks such as the > registering of a webapp with a webserver, database table creation etc. I'm working on dbconfig-common in this moment and I read regularly webapps list :). Thank you anyway. - -- e-mail: Miguel Gea Milvaques <debian(@nospam)miguelgea.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/xerakko/ GnuPG key: 0x580808C4 Key fingerprint = 85A0 06FD 9A6C 4701 27C2 5536 3533 50CA 5808 08C4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCteuVNTNQylgICMQRAlDOAKCLfoJhUh4Rcj6+V8eIhPOjQJmUfwCfb5wj wYc6niuFyHd19MW1p9wemdg= =bfrp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
