Bug#167513: the lack of consultation or discussion regarding this change is not good
tags 167513 wontfix
severity 167513 wishlist
thanks
This change needs far more discussion and visibility - as far as I'm aware,
no-one has filed a bug on apache2 for this change and there has not been a
chance to discuss this bug in a public forum, such as debian-apache or
debian-devel.
The current suggestions seems particularily badly thought out, since it will
break upgrades from current stable.
Also, reading the bug filed with policy, I've not seen any statistics or
evidence that this bug is in anyway representative of our users desire.
Speaking as a sysadmin, I remove site-wide cgi-bin directories as a matter
of course as soon as apache{,2} is installed.
We agree that there is potentially a need to allow site-admins to have a
site wide cgi directory. However, there is no need that we can see to break
existing setups by forcibly changing the location and meaning of cgi-bin,
when a new directory such as simply "cgi" or "cgi-local" would serve the
purposes of the proposed change equally well.
Note also, policy documents best current practise, it is not a stick to beat
us with.
As such, until further discussion comes up with a well reasoned need to
break existing users, this bug will remain wontfix and wishlist only.
Regards
-Thom
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