On 12-01-07 at 11:33am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: > > On 12-01-07 at 09:42am, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I'm not sure that it really violates Policy, mostly because we > >> don't have any Policy guidance about web applications at all right > >> now. But I think it's fairly obvious that it's not a sane thing to > >> do to camp on a piece of URL space without any consultation with > >> the local administrator. Even more so than file system space under > >> /srv, the URL namespace served by a web server is frequently under > >> tight control and needs to be carefully managed according to rules > >> and conventions that the package has no way of knowing. > > > Well, in the case of jwchat it is not so clear cut: the user _is_ > > asked for a hostname for the vhost, and offered to opt-out by > > writing "none", but default is not none. > > The reason why the default is important is because the default is > what's taken if people have set their debconf prompting level to high > or critical (since I assume that this prompt is not critical, and > probably not high, and I think that would be priority inflation). Yes, I am aware of that (but thanks anyway). I am not package maintainer of jwchat, but a concerned user of it. :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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