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 <d...@earth.li> > To: 666...@bugs.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org > CC: Arno Töll <a...@debian.org>
> 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. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
