> So, I'm not sure such kind of list > will be useful for a long period. Of course, we could discuss about > the meaning of 'long' in Debian metrics... I disagree with that. A lot of people use webapps (through their browser) a lot more than all the others. I already explained my PoV about webapps in debian many times on d-devel@, and I still believe that debian should have a policy about webapps, but that's not the only point, and I don't see why such a list would die. a lot of packaging scripts have to be written (dbconfig eg), or enhanced (wwwconfig-common eg). That may look stupid, but webapps may need a lot of new concepts like asynchronous apt tasks : I don't know if you realize how many webapps upgrade will fail if their db server is down (and that happens a lot : every time the webapp is upgraded at the same time as your SGDB ... the DB server will be down during the webapp upgrade). that would need tools. THere is the security problems too (see all the discussion about include() e.g.), and a lot of things to speek about (PEAR packaging e.g. is not ruled by any policy ...). And there is a lot of maintainers that suffer from all those problems, and that would be happy to find some other developper that shares the same problems. so, maybe (and I hope so) it won't have d-devel traffic. but I really think it won't die. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOO http://www.madism.org
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