This one time, at band camp, sean finney said:
> hi,
>
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:02:49PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> > W: bugzilla: file-in-usr-lib-cgi-bin usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla/
> > N:
> > N: Packages shipping web server CGI files should install them in
> > N: /usr/lib/cgi-li
hey joey,
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:51:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> AFAIK apache2 is the only web server package that allows scriptaliases
> to be added to it in a policy conformant way (by dropping config file
> snippets into /etc/apache2/conf.d/. Other web servers that support
> scriptalias,
sean finney wrote:
> - that cgi-bin is defined to be a location outside of debian packages'
> reach entirely (/srv/www/cgi-bin or /var/www/cgi-bin, or whatever).
> - httpds which support scriptaliasing ship this as the default location
> - httpds which can not scriptalias it somewhere else (thos
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:51:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:40:06AM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> > a note to the debian-policy folks: you may or may not be aware that
> > we've done a significant amount of work regarding drafting a comprehensive
> > and sensible poli
hey joey (et al),
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> sean finney wrote:
> > this is a surprising change. guess that's what i get for not being
> > subscribed to -policy :)
>
> Not really, it was last discussed on -policy in 2003, so being
> subscribed wouldn't have help
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:40:06AM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> a note to the debian-policy folks: you may or may not be aware that
> we've done a significant amount of work regarding drafting a comprehensive
> and sensible policy for web servers and web applications. i don' think
> it's quite read
sean finney wrote:
> this is a surprising change. guess that's what i get for not being
> subscribed to -policy :)
Not really, it was last discussed on -policy in 2003, so being
subscribed wouldn't have helped, I'm as suprised as you are.
> but i'm still grappling to understand the rationale beh
hi,
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:02:49PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> W: bugzilla: file-in-usr-lib-cgi-bin usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla/
> N:
> N: Packages shipping web server CGI files should install them in
> N: /usr/lib/cgi-lib, not in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. This is done to avoid
> N: co
On Wed, 03 May 2006 15:02:49 +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> I plan to do the following for the bugzilla package:
>
> 1/ Add a debconf note for notyfing the user about the location
> change.
As Wouter Verhelst said, don't do this! Put an entry in the NEWS.Debian
file instead.
--
Sam Morris
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:02:49PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> I plan to do the following for the bugzilla package:
>
> 1/ Add a debconf note for notyfing the user about the location change.
Eh, no. Please don't.
Debconf notes about things that were done to follow policy are the worst
cases
[ Please follow-up to debian-webapps ]
Hi,
I was working on packaging a new version of bugzilla and when I checked my
package with lintian I discovered that /usr/lib/cgi-bin is now
deprecated by the policy standards:
W: bugzilla: file-in-usr-lib-cgi-bin usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla/
N:
N: Pa
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