Bug#1032424: proftpd-core: Can't load mod_rewrite

[Bernhard Ehlers]

Package: proftpd-core
Version: 1.3.8+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When starting proftpd with default configuration, it complains about
loading the module mod_rewrite.

The following diagnostics were shown:

root at 7c6d004cf953:~# proftpd
2023-03-06 14:11:33,419 7c6d004cf953 proftpd[239]: mod_dso/0.5: unable to load 'mod_rewrite.c'; check to see if '/usr/lib/proftpd/mod_rewrite.la' exists
2023-03-06 14:11:33,419 7c6d004cf953 proftpd[239]: fatal: LoadModule: error loading module 'mod_rewrite.c': No such file or directory on line 74 of '/etc/proftpd/modules.conf'
2023-03-06 14:11:33,419 7c6d004cf953 proftpd[239]: warning: unable to include '/etc/proftpd/modules.conf': Operation not permitted
root at 7c6d004cf953:~# 
root at 7c6d004cf953:~# ls /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_rewrite*
/usr/lib/proftpd/mod_rewrite.so

Proftpd wants to load /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_rewrite.la, but that file
doesn't exist, instead /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_rewrite.so is available.

When commenting "LoadModule mod_rewrite.c" in /etc/proftpd/modules.conf
proftpd starts without these messages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages proftpd-core depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.131
ii  init-system-helpers        1.65.2
ii  libc6                      2.36-8
ii  libcap2                    1:2.66-3
ii  libcrypt1                  1:4.4.33-2
ii  libhiredis0.14             0.14.1-3
ii  libmemcached11             1.1.3-3
ii  libmemcachedutil2          1.1.3-3
ii  libncursesw6               6.4-2
ii  libpam-runtime             1.5.2-6
ii  libpam0g                   1.5.2-6
ii  libpcre2-8-0               10.42-1
ii  libpcre2-posix3            10.42-1
ii  libssl3                    3.0.8-1
ii  libtinfo6                  6.4-2
ii  netbase                    6.4
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]  3.06-2
ii  ucf                        3.0043+nmu1
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages proftpd-core recommends:
pn  proftpd-doc  <none>

Versions of packages proftpd-core suggests:
pn  openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver  <none>
ii  openssl                           3.0.8-1
pn  proftpd-mod-crypto                <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-geoip                 <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-ldap                  <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-mysql                 <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-odbc                  <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-pgsql                 <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-snmp                  <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-sqlite                <none>
pn  proftpd-mod-wrap                  <none>

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