Re: apache2/conf.d migration: what should webapp packagers do?

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

(dropping bug#664761 from cc)
Hi Paul,

Paul Wise wrote:

> That looks like a highly inappropriate thing for gitweb to be doing.

What can I say?  It works, and it is a conffile so the sysadmin can
easily override it.  That said:

> There is no way for the package to know what URL and filesystem paths
> (for data/config) the sysadmin wants gitweb to be installed at. The
> package needs to ask the sysadmin if they want to setup any instances,
> prompt them for the relevant data and run any scripts needed to create
> those instances.

Patches welcome.

Thanks,
Jonathan