Bug#462270: asterisk: agi-bin directory is intended for local scripts, and should be under /var

[Faidon Liambotis]

Tim Retout wrote:
>> Well, I don't exactly agree to the "host-specific scripts".
>> If we go down this road, then the whole /usr/local should go away
>> (think of perl, python etc.)
> 
> There can be site-specific software that is not host-specific, so
> third-party Perl modules would still belong in /usr/local.
Exactly; there can be site-specific AGIs that are not host-specific
(been there, done that). If you think about it a bit, there's not much
of a difference.

> But symlinks in /var/lib would not be unprecedented; I can think, for
> example, of the typo3-dummy package (for configuring a web app), which
> puts a whole hierarchy of files and symlinks in /var/lib/typo3-dummy.
> There must be more.
HylaFAX does something like that. It's ugly as hell :-)
tomcat has a bunch of symlinks and it's not that bad.

I'd prefer it if it was our last option though.

> Yes, ideally we would add this support - but would it not involve
> changing the format of the config file, and creating even more
> incompatibilities with upstream?
It might. Not sure yet.
I'll try to discuss this with upstream.

Regards,
Faidon