Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff
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. Cheers, -- Damien signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff
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. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#585946: red5: please document removed stuff
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
