Bug#32263: Splitting CGI-BIN

2002-09-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> The above would also seem like it would break people's websites and Anthony> bookmarks, a bit, which would seem undesirable. Anthony> What would y'all think about having cgi-bin managed more like, umm: Anthony> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ >> packag

Bug#32263: Splitting CGI-BIN

2002-09-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> No, I mean that /cgi-lib should point to Brian> /usr/lib/cgi-bin and /cgi-bin should point to Brian> ~www-data/cgi-bin. The latter is what webmaster expect or, at Brian> the very least, they expect to be able to control Brian> /cgi-

Bug#32263: Splitting CGI-BIN

2002-09-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:13:25AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Would it not be a desirable goal to ultimately have the users > using the /cgi-lib for system scripts, and /cgi-bin for local > scripts, and have distinct name spaces? I don't see why? There are two reasons for name space

Bug#32263: Splitting CGI-BIN

2002-09-20 Thread Brian White
> >> Yes. But the scripts still live in ~www-data/cgi-bin, right? > >> If not, I missed when you are going to have packages move the scripts > >> out. > > Brian> All system scripts would live under /usr/lib/cgi-bin and be > Brian> accessed via /cgi-lib. To make for a smooth > Brian> transit

Re: Bug#161455: debian-policy: reference to ash outdated

2002-09-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:02:24PM -0600, Georg Lehner wrote: > It is my opinion, that all sh-scripts involved in the standard system > should be posix-sh compatible Correct; if you find one which isn't, please file a bug against the package. > _and_ that the selection of the /bin/sh > symlink s

Bug#32263: Splitting CGI-BIN

2002-09-20 Thread Brian White
> I don't see any value to letting the guy browsing your website be able > to tell the difference between local CGI scripts and remote ones though. > It seems beneficial not to, even, so you can have replace your homebrew > build of http://example.com/cgi-bin/analog with the prepackaged version, >

Re: Preanouncement: Mail-subsystem policy change proposal

2002-09-20 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! El jue, 19-09-2002 a las 07:37, Adrian von Bidder escribió: ... > I think these names are not really clear enough. default/mail-transport > and default/mail-program? default/mail/mta and default/mail/mua? Ooops! Let's leave some room for the mta-switch./etc/default/mta ;-) There is one