Where to place images?
This is sent to both -policy and -mentors, as it's both a proposal and
a request for clarification/help. Please Cc me as I'm only subscribed
to -mentors.
I am in the process of fixing Mailman, which I've just adopted. There
is this bug, #61761 (http://bugs.debian.org/61761 ), where the
submitter complains that the mailman logo is broken by default (when
not accessing from localhost). This is because the images are in
http://localhost/doc/mailman/images/, which is only accessible from
localhost. The submitter proposes that they should be put in,
/var/www/mailman-images or something like that.
Policy has something to say about this, 12.5:
: Web Document Root
:
: Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web
: Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/<package>
: directory for documents and register the Web Application via the
: menu package. If access to the web-root is unavoidable then use
: /var/www as the Document Root. This might be just a symbolic link to
: the location where the sysadmin has put the real document root.
However, I'd like to put images in something like
/usr/share/web-images, since I _might_ end up cluttering around and
overwriting files which I shouldn't, by placing the images in
/var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks messy, IMHO.
So what I propose is that we create a new directory /usr/share/images
(or something like that), which is available via the web as
http://server/images/. Packages create sub-directories, so that
Mailman will have /usr/share/images/mailman/logo.jpg which will be
referred to as http://server/images/mailman/logo.jpg .
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Tollef Fog Heen
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