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



Hi.

Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> 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 ?

The dirname is /usr/lib/cgi-bin/, yes. The original phrasing was
ambiguous, as such.

> I am slightly concerned that the added "typically" weakens the "should".
> Is it intended ?
>

I don't know, as I'm not an english native speaker. That weakening
wasn't intended. Feel free to improve ;)

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)


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