Splitting package for web interface

[ikedas]

I feel it's too late, but can we split package for web interface?

Advantages I think are:

• a user who wants to use web interface but don't want to use prepared HTTPd configurations (e.g. using another server software) may install only sympa and sympa-www below.
• replacement of web interface in the future may be easy.

Idea is that sympa-www package including executables, modules etc. for web interface but not including configuration for each HTTP server. For example:

• /etc/sympa/custom_actions/
• /etc/sympa/sympa.wsdl
• /etc/sympa/web_tt2
• /usr/libexec/sympa/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi
• /usr/libexec/sympa/sympa_soap_server.fcgi
• /usr/libexec/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi
• /usr/libexec/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi
• /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/web_help.mo
• /usr/share/man/man1/upgrade_shared_repository.1.gz
• /usr/share/man/man3/Sympa::WWW::*.3Sympa.gz
• /usr/share/man/man5/sympa.wsdl.5.gz
• /usr/share/man/man5/trusted_applications.conf.5.gz
• /usr/share/man/man8/sympa_soap_server.8.gz
• /usr/share/man/man8/wwsympa.8.gz
• /usr/share/sympa/bin/upgrade_shared_repository.pl
• /usr/share/sympa/default/sympa.wsdl
• /usr/share/sympa/default/web_tt2/*
• /usr/share/sympa/lib/Sympa/WWW/*
• /usr/share/sympa/static_content/*
• /var/lib/sympa/css
• /var/lib/sympa/pictures

(Note: above is incomplete list.)

Below would be included in sympa-www, but are referred to by recent code used by core sympa package.

• /etc/sympa/auth.conf
• /etc/sympa/crawlers_detection.conf
• /usr/share/man/man1/upgrade_sympa_password.1.gz
• /usr/share/man/man5/auth.conf.5.gz
• /usr/share/man/man5/crawlers_detection.conf.5.gz
• /usr/share/sympa/bin/upgrade_sympa_password.pl
• /usr/share/sympa/default/auth.conf
• /usr/share/sympa/default/crawlers_detection.conf

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2018-03-29 Updated file list.

[xavierba]

I agree, separating the daemons from the web interface makes sense.
It shouldn't be too hard to achieve, given you can complete the files list above.