On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2008, Paul Querna wrote: >> > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=21137 has >> > been in Debian testing and unstable for about 6 months without >> > problems. It is not an elegant solution but it works. Considering >> > that is is not clear how an elegant solution would look like, >> > including this patch might make sense. >> >> Please don't put these kind of patches into the debian apache >> packages, especially ones that don't exist in trunk. >> >> (Things that are committed to turnk, and just are awaiting >> backport, I'm less concerned about, but this patch is a behavior >> change at the core of the MPMs.) > > Bugs as grave as this one are not acceptable in Debian packages for > extended periods of time. The bug report has been open for over 1 > year, I have attached my patch on 2007-11-16. It is marked as > critical since 2008-01-16. If you don't want such patches in the > Debian package, you need to fix such bugs faster (and comment on > patches in bugzilla faster). Of course I understand that this is > difficult because there are never enough people to fix bugs (we have > the same problem).
To take it to the extreme, a fork being called 'Apache' isn't acceptable either. Please work with us here, even though it's a very low barrier for you to put patches in your package, much lower than to get it applied upstream (here). > I admit that I should have followed up on the discussion in February, > but I was quite busy and then forgot about it. Cheers, Sander
