[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#635281: jwchat: adding apache vhost should be separate from setting hostname in conffile

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: jwchat
Severity: important

Currently jwchat supports debconf-configured apache vhost.

Nice in principle, but there are a few problems in the implementation:

One is forced to use an isolated virtual host solely for jwchat and
configured fully automatic.

What would make more sense was to ask separately for...

  * hostname (string: used to compose the jwchat conffile)
  * server(s) (list: used to compose httpd daemon snippets)


Should be simple to add snippets for lighttpd and nginx (and probably
others as well), if adding a symlink from english localized files to
non-localized ones - since apparently only apache supports proper
content-negotiation.


A concrete interest in this is for FreedomBox, which needs packages to
be fully automatically installed. Answering "none" to the debconf
question and then hacking "by hand" is not an option - as that will come
back and haunt us later if ever the jwchat conffile changes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash