On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:03:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > If not, there is not much advantage to move them under /usr/lib as it is done > now. Most other parts for packaged web sites are already in > /usr/share/<package>. For simple sites, having the CGIs in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > makes the maintainer's task simpler as he does not have to write webserver > csonfiguration files, but for more complex packages, it sometimes makes the > task > harder, for instance when the CGI scripts need to be patched because relative > links are broken by the move. > > 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 don't think there's any *requirement*, as this is all in "should" statements. in isolation from outside context i think the change russ describes makes sense, but generally speaking i think the web-related suggestions in policy are very dated and much of it ought to be phased out in deference to the webapps policy (or the webapps policy phased in) sean
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