On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:55:33PM +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
> 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.
>
> Recent works on webapps-common alioth project recommends to use the
> directory /usr/share/PACKAGE/www.
>
The current version of the policy we're working on can be found at:
http://people.debian.org/~neilm/webapps-policy/
The plan is to get this finalised and get a 1.0 release ready for the
release of Etch, hopefully with all packages compliant.
As it's a work in progress, it should be considered a 'best practice'
document, rather than an offical policy document.
Also, as this is a draft, the useage of "/usr/share/PACKAGE/www" may
change. IMO, it's probably not going to, but it may be worth keeping
(main) policy as is until we are in a position to release 1.0 of the
WebApps policy.
This could also be a good time to give the webapps list[0] a good plug :)
If you would like to join in, please come help. As well as the policy,
we're creating some helper applications to do tasks such as the
registering of a webapp with a webserver, database table creation etc.
Regards
Neil McGovern
[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-webapps
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/webapps-common
#debian-webapps on irc.oftc.net
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