Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
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 submitte

Re: Forwarded Bug Reports

2001-03-11 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:57:44PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:08:49PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > If I fix a bug in my package, and send the patch upstream, should > > the bug be marked "forwarded", or should "forwarded" be reserved for > > bugs that are waiting

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in, > /var/www/mailman-images or something like that. I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. I've stored the images used by the web frontend (wwsympa) in /usr/share/sy

placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
viewmol, a molecular modelling program I'm packaging, makes use of a number of supplementary binary files and scripts to read atomic coordinates from a range of different file formats. By default these utilities are kept in a viewmol-specific directory (/usr/local/lib/viewmol, which I'll change to

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jérôme Marant | En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > | > localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in, | > /var/www/mailman-images or something like that. | | I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. | I've stored the images used by the web f

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:14:58AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > By default these utilities are kept in a viewmol-specific directory > (/usr/local/lib/viewmol, which I'll change to /usr/share/viewmol), where > viewmol knows to find them, their position being defined by the config file > viewmolrc. >

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:18:09AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > > > > Should I therefore keep these supplementary utilities in the viewmol > > directory, or should they instead be moved to /usr/bin? > > if they're binaries that are typically wrapped or otherwise not > typically invoked directly by

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:05:16AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:18:09AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > > > > > > Should I therefore keep these supplementary utilities in the viewmol > > > directory, or should they instead be moved to /usr/bin? > > > > if they're binaries t

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. > | I've stored the images used by the web frontend (wwsympa) in > | /usr/share/sympa/icons. > | > | /usr/share/ is used by many (web) applications for > | that purpose. > > How do you se

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > 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 > mess

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:14:58AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > viewmol, a molecular modelling program I'm packaging, makes use of a number > of supplementary binary files and scripts to read atomic coordinates from a > range of different file formats. > > By default these utilities are kept in a

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jérôme Marant | With sympa, you just have to give the web alias for accessing | images. So the admin is responsible for setting this up himself? I don't want to mess around with possibly-changing syntaxes in the different httpds' configuration files. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user f

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the images in > /usr/share/ and sy

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:25:43AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, > > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an > > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the image

Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
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 submitt

Re: Forwarded Bug Reports

2001-03-11 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:57:44PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:08:49PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > If I fix a bug in my package, and send the patch upstream, should > > the bug be marked "forwarded", or should "forwarded" be reserved for > > bugs that are waiting

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in, > /var/www/mailman-images or something like that. I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. I've stored the images used by the web frontend (wwsympa) in /usr/share/s

placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
viewmol, a molecular modelling program I'm packaging, makes use of a number of supplementary binary files and scripts to read atomic coordinates from a range of different file formats. By default these utilities are kept in a viewmol-specific directory (/usr/local/lib/viewmol, which I'll change t

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jérôme Marant | En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > | > localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in, | > /var/www/mailman-images or something like that. | | I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. | I've stored the images used by the web

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:14:58AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > By default these utilities are kept in a viewmol-specific directory > (/usr/local/lib/viewmol, which I'll change to /usr/share/viewmol), where > viewmol knows to find them, their position being defined by the config file > viewmolrc.

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:18:09AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > > > > Should I therefore keep these supplementary utilities in the viewmol > > directory, or should they instead be moved to /usr/bin? > > if they're binaries that are typically wrapped or otherwise not > typically invoked directly b

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:05:16AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:18:09AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > > > > > > Should I therefore keep these supplementary utilities in the viewmol > > > directory, or should they instead be moved to /usr/bin? > > > > if they're binaries

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | I'm the maintainer of the sympa mailing list manager. > | I've stored the images used by the web frontend (wwsympa) in > | /usr/share/sympa/icons. > | > | /usr/share/ is used by many (web) applications for > | that purpose. > > How do you s

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > 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 > mes

Re: placing supplementary binaries

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:14:58AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > viewmol, a molecular modelling program I'm packaging, makes use of a number > of supplementary binary files and scripts to read atomic coordinates from a > range of different file formats. > > By default these utilities are kept in

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jérôme Marant | With sympa, you just have to give the web alias for accessing | images. So the admin is responsible for setting this up himself? I don't want to mess around with possibly-changing syntaxes in the different httpds' configuration files. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the images in > /usr/share/ and s

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:25:43AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, > > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an > > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the imag