Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then, I don't understand why we have this discussion _after_ the policy > has been changed... > I thought the policy was a trustable document, where developers could > find guidelines for their work, it seems that it's not always true. Sad. debian-pol

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 5/3/06, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using the path component "cgi-lib" which will even be visible to users of the web server looks like a big chunk of NIH to me. Even worse, it will break existing URLs when CGIs start to move to their location. To be honest, I thought this poli

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > In the meantime, do you suggest to use lintian overrides for fixing this > in webapp packages or purely ignoring the lintian complaints? Given that there is no support for this from webserver maintainers and no proposed migration pa

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > >As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > >web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > >anymore: > > Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all > the other web serve

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Alexis Sukrieh wrote: As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' anymore: Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all the other web servers in Debian (sans apache 1) combine

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joey Hess 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I won't discuss here the goodwill of this change, I just want to > > point out that by now, 110 packages are RC bug candidates because of > > this [2] (422 files installed inder `/usr/lib/cgi-bin'). > > Policy uses a "should" for this, so at most th

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > anymore: > > Quoting lintian: > > This is done to avoid conflicts with the cgi-bin script alias, > which is reserved for the

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread sean finney
hey alexis, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > anymore: > CGIs must be put under /usr/lib/cgi-lib now. i'd hold off on that

Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Hello, As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' anymore: Quoting lintian: This is done to avoid conflicts with the cgi-bin script alias, which is reserved for the local use of webmasters. CGI