Bug#1137366: RFS: libapache2-mod-authnz-external/3.3.3-1 [ITA] -- authenticate Apache against external authentication services

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:10:19 +0500

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On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 08:11:17PM -0600, Matthew Turner wrote:
>To access further information about this package, please visit the
>following URL:
>
>  https://mentors.debian.net/package/libapache2-mod-authnz-external/

It would be nice if you looked at that page and decided to do something 
with at least the big red items. It wouls also be nices if you ran lintian 
locally and read the output.

> libapache2-mod-authnz-external (3.3.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> .
>   * New upstream release (Josef Liska & Micah Andersen - July 22, 2019).

It should be just "New upstream release"

>   * Added METHOD environment variable to retrieve the HTTP request method
>     (e.g. GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS, etc.). Thanks to Vijay from Google Code.
>   * Fixed a bug with incorrect parenthesis grouping when checking the result
>     of the external process in exec_external(). Thanks to @dcb314.
>   * Added the "GroupExternalAuthNCheck Off" directive to disable the check
>     for a previously authenticated user when using *only* the group
>     authorization module. If you use *any* user authentication module in the
>     same context, this may be undesirable. Thanks to Micah Andersen/BIMI.
>   * Fix launching external processes on Windows - many programs require the
>     %SystemRoot% environment variable to function properly. Thanks to Micah
>     Andersen/BIMI.

This doesn't belong here, please read and follow 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog 
and https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.en.html#writing-useful-changelog-entries

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WBR, wRAR

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