Bug#117916: debian-policy: New virtual package httpd-cgi.

[Uwe Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi everyone.

I hereby propose to add a new virtual package called 'httpd-cgi' to
the list of virtual packages in virtual-package-names-list.txt.


Reason:

There are several packages which depend on (or suggest or whatever)
'httpd'. Some of these packages contain CGI scripts, but not all
webservers which provide 'httpd' actually have CGI support.

Therefore I suggested on debian-devel to use a new virtual package.
After some discussion the consesus was that this virtual package should be
called 'httpd-cgi'. Read the threads starting at [1] and [2] for details.
If a webserver provides this virtual package (in addition to the usual
'httpd'), one can be sure that it has got CGI support.

If all webservers which support CGI provide 'httpd-cgi' in addition to
'httpd', all packages which need CGI support can safely depend on 'httpd-cgi',
all those which only need a webserver (and don't care whether it supports
CGI or not) can go on depending on 'httpd' (i.e. no changes required).


[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg01206.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg01574.html


P.S. Feel free to merge this with #62996 if desired...

P.S. I didn't call this bug [PROPOSAL], because I'm not a DD, yet (still
     waiting for account creation)...


Cheers, Uwe.
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