Bug#545688: Basic webapp packaging questions

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the answers.  In particular:

sean finney wrote:

> i think that makes sense.  as for location, official debian policy says
> you could drop files in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, though myself i'm not a huge
> fan of that as a general rule since the scripts are able to be run as
> soon as the package is unpacked, even if it's not configured.

I found this comment very helpful.

Maybe policy § 11.5 needs updating.  I am not volunteering for this
yet, just giving a heads up and hoping someone else will suggest
something.  Maybe a list of changes that ought to be made in

  http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/

before it is ready to be proposed as policy.