Re: Bug#167513: the lack of consultation or discussion regarding this change is not good

[Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>]

Tollef Fog Heen said:
> We aren't RedHat, we do support partial upgrades.  If we want to avoid
> the conflicts line, we have to have both cgi-lib and cgi-bin in place
> for two full releases before we can switch to just cgi-lib.

I see nothing at all wrong with that.  Add /cgi-lib/ now, and then take
the default /cgi-bin/ away a few years down the track.  Policy is then
satisfied, the structure of the Apache installation will be in line with
all the other web servers in Debian, and everyone can go and worry about
something else.

> Our proposed solution is rather to create a /local-cgi ScriptAlias
> pointing to /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin, which is where local changes
> should go anyway.

Bleh.

Andrew.

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