Web applications as packages in Debian suck. They're often a pain to install and remove. Please lets not discuss the quality of the actual Web applications themselves! ;) They're usually the LAMP(Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP/Python/Perl) sort and when it comes to setup a mysql root password needs to be asked and an apache config include question. These questions are avoidable. Christian Hammer's package mysql-server (>= 4.0.20-8) now features a debian-sys-maint super user which can setup mysql users and databases. My NMU of Wordpress is the first package to do this [1]. I hope other packages will follow suit and improve the usability of the package. Mass bug file? The apache question. I've mailed already to debian-apache [2] with no reply. Perhaps we can discuss Web Applications right here on debian-devel? I would like to eventually see a policy of how they should be deployed in Debian. Then the apache include question can be avoided. My suggestion [3] would need probably another configuration dependency of DNS authoritative server API of some sort. :/ Thoughts? My timing is pretty bad. I should bring this up again post-release. [1] http://svn.natalian.org/debian/wordpress/trunk/debian/postinst [2] http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040812.163123.10c9e911.html [3] http://natalian.org/archives/2004/08/09/dropping-the-www
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