hey -mentors, stephen gran volunteered to give my package a looking over and eventually an upload (thanks!), and as a result i have another couple of packaging issues for you (and by couple i mean 6): - do cgi programs need man pages as well? techinically they're executables, but i don't know what i'd put there, and they do live in /usr/lib, so it's a bit ambiguous to me. i looked at some other packages and none of the few i looked at had manpages, but i just want to make sure... - is it a policy violation to ship an empty logfile? - is it a policy violation to ship it 660 root:www-data? the cgi script in question isn't run setuid, so it can't write unless the owner or group field is changed, and in the latter case only if the group permissions are changed. also, the script can't write to the log if it doesn't exist because it doesn't have permissions to create a file in /var/log otherwise. - would it be better for a logfile to go in /var/log, or /var/log/packagename? it's a single logfile, but it gets logrotated, so i can see people getting grumpy about it in /var/log/sugarplum.* after a couple of months... thanks, as always sean
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