Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: > I realize that. Any idea when the patch I provide will actually be applied > to the policy manual? It would be nice to get this underway. After the woody release I suspect. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-11-20 Thread Brian White
> > Any idea when the patch I provided will actually be applied to the policy > > manual? It would be nice to get this underway. Thanks! > > Policy is frozen. I realize that. Any idea when the patch I provide will actually be applied to the policy manual? It would be nice to get this underway

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: > Any idea when the patch I provided will actually be applied to the policy > manual? It would be nice to get this underway. Thanks! Policy is frozen. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-11-20 Thread Brian White
Any idea when the patch I provided will actually be applied to the policy manual? It would be nice to get this underway. Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-05-13 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Brian! On Sun, 13 May 2001, Brian White wrote: > There is new Debian policy regarding the use of "cgi-bin" in web servers. > The basic issue is that many webmasters expect to have this directory > available for their own use and not have it taken over by the system to be > used by the various

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-05-13 Thread Brian White
Now that we're getting ready for a new release, I'd like to implement this new policy in the new development stream. Here is the text I plan to include in the necessary bug reports I'll submit. I don't forsee any difficulties with the upgrade path. Please let me know if you think I missed someth

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-01-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The best path may be to get the http server packages to add in >> the new script directory as an alias, and then put the change in >> policy as a recommendation, and, later, when most packages have had a >> chance to change, we can put in

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-01-20 Thread Brian White
> Brian> This this has now passed the first step of a policy change, > Brian> I'm changing the bug title and severity. Sorry for the > Brian> delay... I hadn't realized what I had to do. > > The one problem I see with this proposal is that it does not > put into place any transition

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-01-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> This this has now passed the first step of a policy change, Brian> I'm changing the bug title and severity. Sorry for the Brian> delay... I hadn't realized what I had to do. The one problem I see with this proposal is that

Processed: Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-01-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 32263 [AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin Bug#32263: [PROPOSAL] Splitting cgi-bin Changed Bug title. > severity normal Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2001-01-20 Thread Brian White
retitle 32263 [AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin severity normal -- This this has now passed the first step of a policy change, I'm changing the bug title and severity. Sorry for the delay... I hadn't realized what I had to do. > - > Most people setting up a web site expect /cgi-bin/

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2000-11-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:20:53AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > Here's what I wrote up as a patch to "policy.sgml". > > === > --- policy.sgml.orig Fri Nov 3 00:02:17 2000 > +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 3 00:18:45 2000 >

Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2000-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:20:53AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > --- policy.sgml.orig Fri Nov 3 00:02:17 2000 > +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 3 00:18:45 2000 > @@ -2949,9 +2949,20 @@ > > and can be referred to as > > - http://localhost/cgi-

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2000-11-02 Thread Brian White
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > > - > > Most people setting up a web site expect /cgi-bin/ to be available for > > scripts on their site. Unfortunately, Debian uses this for those scripts > > packages that get installed. These two need to be independant. > > >

Re: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2000-11-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > - > Most people setting up a web site expect /cgi-bin/ to be available for > scripts on their site. Unfortunately, Debian uses this for those scripts > packages that get installed. These two need to be independant. > > As such, D

Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

2000-11-02 Thread Brian White
Now that there is some time to make changes before the next release, can we look at this idea again. It's really a pretty simple idea that would save some headaches for professional webmaster. Most people have said they thought it was a good idea. It just needs to go through the final steps of b