Bug#737730: debian-policy: Minor rewrite for CGI program paths in "11.5 Web servers and applications"

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Reading https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-web-appl I think it could be rephrased from :
> 
> 1.  Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory
> 
>          /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
> 
>     or a subdirectory of that directory, and should be referred to as
> 
>          http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
> 
>     (possibly with a subdirectory name before cgi-bin-name).
> 
> to :
> 
> 1.  Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ or a subdirectory of that directory, so that, typically
> 
>          /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
> 
>     should be referred to as
> 
>          http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
> 
>     (possibly with a subdirectory name before cgi-bin-name).
> 
> Hope this helps.

I think your main point is that /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name should be
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ in the original text, is it ?
I am slightly concerned that the added "typically" weakens the "should".
Is it intended ?

Cheers,
Bill.