Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed
First off, I'm not sure what this discussion has to do with this proposal?
It might just be a tangent prompted by seeing a mention of this part of
Policy, which is fine, but I'm worried that I didn't explain the proposal
very well, since this seems unrelated.
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:35:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> Despite its age, this bug is rather straightforward and is something we
>> really should have fixed years ago. The current wording around
>> locations of CGI programs implies that subdirectories of
>> /usr/lib/cgi-bin may not be used, but of course this is very widely
>> used in packages already in the archive and works with a typical web
>> server configuration. Here is a patch that explicitly allows this.
> will web servers find the CGI scripts automagically in
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/<package>?
That's the implication of this section. Web servers should be configured
to serve that location by default. This is pretty widely used already in
Debian.
> There were discussions along those lines on debian-devel a couple of
> monthes ago. I suggest to seriously consider to drop the requirement to
> separate the CGI scripts from the other files of the packaged websites.
I think this is a different question and a different bug. It's probably
something that we should discuss as part of incorporating the webapps
policy.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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