On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:58:40 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)> said:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:55:33 +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques
> <debian@miguelgea.com> said:
>> 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.
> I agree with this assessment.
>> Recent works on webapps-common alioth project recommends to use the
>> directory /usr/share/PACKAGE/www.
> As others have suggested in this thread, since this is web
> application data meant to be served by this host, it makes sense to
> have a per-package sub director somewhere under /srv.
> /src/webapps/PACKAGE, perhaps? Or is the draft Web
Arrgh. /srv/webapps/PACKAGE, I meant.
> applications policy the correct place to specify the actual path,
> and just let 11.5.4 say a subdirectory under /srv, and defer to the
> web applications policy for details?
manoj
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