Re: Bug#167513: the lack of consultation or discussion regarding this change is not good
Thom May said:
> 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
Thom, thanks for putting in a sane & rational response. =)
Andrew.
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