Re: Bug#56768: latex2html creates /var/www/usr/share/latex2html/icons/...
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> Joey> You know, I have the same problem with analog, and it seems to
> Joey> me this is a general problem with our web policy. The icons can
> Joey> be put in /usr/share/doc/<package>, but you still cannot use
> Joey> the same urls to access them on a http server and as local
> Joey> files.
>
> Joey> I wonder if there is some way we can change the policy to fix it?
>
> You mean insist that http://localhost/usr/doc/ be the same as
> /usr/doc (just like http://localhost/doc/ is required to be right
> now)?
>
> I'd agree with you that /doc is really too generic to have
> been hijacked by Debian.
As we discussed on IRC, yes.
> We should pay some attention to privacy issues; and not
> default to http://localhost/usr/doc/ be wide open (deny from all;
> allow from localhost whould be the way to go in access.conf; this
> shall allow people who wish to to export their packages easily)
Sounds good to me, of course, not all web servers can support that, though
it seems apache can.
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