Package: apache2-dev Version: 2.4.10-2 Severity: wishlist The packaging recommendations suggest to name config files for conf-available the same as the binary package name containing the file. There is a lintian warning to check this recommendation. This is fine for the file contained in the binary package, but a bit awkward in the source package if you want to support multiple web servers in a webapp. If you want to use dh_apache2 (which is a great tool) the you have to call your apache config file debian/packagename.conf also in the source package. But this conflicts with config files for other webservers, which would likely be called that way too.
There are workarounds for this problem already, but they all seem ugly to me: * Just call the files for other webservers differently and deal with this in your debian/rules. This is not really a problem as only Apache has a debhelper extension at the moment. * Don't use dh_apache2 to copy the config file. * Ignore the lintian warning and have a file like packagename-apache.conf in confs-available * use subdirectories in debian like debian/apache/packagename.conf, debian/lighthttpd/packagename.conf. IMO the best way to deal with this would be to allow renameing of config files with dh_apache2. Gaudenz -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apache2-dev depends on: ii debhelper 9.20140817 ii libapr1-dev 1.5.1-3 ii libaprutil1-dev 1.5.3-3 ii openssl 1.0.1i-2 ii perl 5.20.1-1 apache2-dev recommends no packages. apache2-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-apache-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141003094358.21317.75328.reportbug@moebius.durcheinandertal.local