Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

[Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net>]

* Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen@err.no) disait :
> >As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that
> >web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin'
> >anymore:
> 
> Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all 
> the other web servers in Debian (sans apache 1) combined and the apache 
> team has no intentions of adopting the cgi-lib policy, I think the idea 
> of cgi-lib is quite dead.

Then, I don't understand why we have this discussion _after_ the policy
has been changed...

I thought the policy was a trustable document, where developers could 
find guidelines for their work, it seems that it's not always true. Sad.

> If policy documents something which isn't true and won't be true, it 
> should be changed back again.

In the meantime, do you suggest to use lintian overrides for fixing this
in webapp packages or purely ignoring the lintian complaints?

I hope we can solve that issue soon, it's pretty confusing for maintainers.

Kind Regards,

	Alexis.

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