Bug#627213: not happy with these virtual packages at all

2011-06-01 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I do not think that these virtual packages work for web apps. I took over two packages (cf. #614598 and #627962) that declared a dependency on httpd, when both clearly required httpd-cgi. I rebelled and changed the dependency to apache2. Also as someone has pointed out already, just because these p

Bug#627213: New virtual package(s) for different kinds of httpd (fastcgi etc)

2011-06-01 Thread Jérémy Lal
About running webapps as differents user/group, note that it's been discusses some time ago : http://lists.debian.org/debian-webapps/2010/05/msg1.html Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: [PATCH] Specify policy for use of revision IDs in version numbers

2011-06-01 Thread David Bremner
On May 1, 2011 seanius wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:51:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I don't think it's Policy's place to tell people that they can't use > > hashes because they *might* result in long version numbers. They > > usually don't. > > +1. otherwise, this seems more li

Bug#627213: New virtual package(s) for different kinds of httpd (fastcgi etc)

2011-06-01 Thread Jérémy Lal
A word about /var/run for sockets : since it's a tmpfs, folders are not kept, so it's up to the fastcgi backend to create them. Unfortunately, that doesn't work when spawning is done by the httpd-fcgi server : lighttpd, given a "socket => /var/run/myapp/socket" option, does not create /var/run/mya