Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#666822: Apache 2.4 upload date scheduled for May 30; mod_perl needs work

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:57:45PM +0200, Cosimo Streppone wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Bug#666822: Apache 2.4 upload date scheduled for May 30;
> mod_perl needs work
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:22:36 +0100
> From: Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> CC: Arno Töll <[email protected]>

> Unfortunately we haven't progressed very far with this issue so far;
> as things stand mod_perl will become uninstallable in Debian unstable
> in a week or so (after more than a year since this bug was created).
> 
> I would have liked to have had a bit more time to look into this but
> haven't found the time yet.
> 
> Based on comments on the upstream dev list, principally [1] last month,
> the main blocker to getting a release out with 2.4 support appears to to
> do with a single release which supports for both httpd 2.2 and 2.4. Whilst
> I view this as the best general approach, to solve the issue in Debian,
> it might be that all/most of what's needed to prepare a
> libapache2-mod-perl2 which can be targetted at Apache 2.4 is in the
> upstream httpd24 branch (and if we are already in the situation where the
> Apache maintainers are going ahead with an upload to unstable, the downside
> of having to coordinate uploads isn't so much of an issue). It would
> involve carrying a probably large patch until the work is merged upstream,
> but it is probably the best choice we have at this point.

FYI, this work has now been done and libapache2-mod-perl2
2.0.8+httpd24-r1449661-1 has just been uploaded to Debian experimental.
If the Apache transition goes ahead as scheduled, it will appear
in Debian unstable before long.

See <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666822> for more
information.

The main remaining issue is that a couple of tests are still failing:
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710327>.

Thanks to Niko Tyni and gregor herrmann for the majority of the work
in preparing this package!

Cheers,
Dominic.

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