Bug#314808: Incorrect directory for web applications.

[Miguel Gea Milvaques <debian@miguelgea.com>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.1
Severity: normal


Hi,
On policy 11.5.4 says:
"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 doc-base package."

and in policy 12.3 says:
"Packages must not require the existence of any files in /usr/share/doc/
in order to function."

This points that all web applications that uses /usr/share/doc/package
directory are breaking policy 12.3, so I think policy 11.5.4 must recommend
other different directory.

Recent works on webapps-common alioth project recommends to use the
directory /usr/share/PACKAGE/www.

Thanks.

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