Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 00:06 +0200, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:

> JFTR, /installer and /demos webapps are for demonstration purpose only and 
> should never be installed on a public red5 server (no security at all in 
> those 
> applications)
> 
> Furthermore, they contains many non-free stuffs :
> - binary-only *.swf (Flash Player) files (no source provided in tarball and 
> no 
> free compiler exist for Flex sources files - .as and .mxml)
> - movies trailers like Avatar / Toy Story 3

Thanks for the info, I figured that there were some non-free things.

> I understand your point and I'll work on providing some documentation on that 
> stuffs.

Great. Just one problem, README.Debian isn't usually accessible from a
file:// URL since most folks will be installing red5 on a remote server
instead of on their local machine. I would suggest that you should
instead duplicate the information about installing the installer app and
demos in index.html itself so that it is obvious some manual setup is
needed when you look at the main page. You also didn't mention the lack
of security in those applications. The info should be in README.Debian
too since some folks will look there first.

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pabs

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Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff

2010-06-30 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hi Paul,

Le mardi 15 juin 2010 05:39:37, Paul Wise a écrit :
> My workmate wanted to install red5 on our Debian server to test some
> things. Unfortunately the red5 package doesn't include a whole bunch of
> stuff so he had to purge it and slurp the upstream tarball down. The
> main issue was that the /installer and /demos URLs on the web interface
> on port 5080 did not work.

JFTR, /installer and /demos webapps are for demonstration purpose only and 
should never be installed on a public red5 server (no security at all in those 
applications)

Furthermore, they contains many non-free stuffs :
- binary-only *.swf (Flash Player) files (no source provided in tarball and no 
free compiler exist for Flex sources files - .as and .mxml)
- movies trailers like Avatar / Toy Story 3

> Please install documentation at /installer
> saying why these files were removed and how to get them working again,
> with a list of commands to run. Please also document the removals in
> orig-tar.exclude so it is obvious to people who download the source
> package why stuff is removed. Stuff like this is one thing that leads
> people to avoid existing Debian packages for web-related stuff.

I understand your point and I'll work on providing some documentation on that 
stuffs.

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Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
Package: red5-server
Version: 0.9.1-1

My workmate wanted to install red5 on our Debian server to test some
things. Unfortunately the red5 package doesn't include a whole bunch of
stuff so he had to purge it and slurp the upstream tarball down. The
main issue was that the /installer and /demos URLs on the web interface
on port 5080 did not work. Please install documentation at /installer
saying why these files were removed and how to get them working again,
with a list of commands to run. Please also document the removals in
orig-tar.exclude so it is obvious to people who download the source
package why stuff is removed. Stuff like this is one thing that leads
people to avoid existing Debian packages for web-related stuff.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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