[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1144743: [MoM] Bug#1144743: civetweb: enable XDOM_SOCKET and ZLIB

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Fernando,

Am Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 10:24:17AM +0200 schrieb Fernando Hueso González:
> Hi Andreas, one question,
> 
> is there any mechanism to suggest "backporting" this change from forky into
> trixie ?

   https://backports.debian.org/
 
> I see that forky is already at 1.16+dfsg-5 whereas trixie is at
> 1.16+dfsg-2+deb13u1, so a couple of patches behind.

All this is *work* and we need to make sure that its worth it compared
to other work.  "A couple of patches" on some package which has popcon
0.44% is IMHO not worth spending the effort.  Security patches are for
sure propagated to stable (real stable, not backports).

> Thanks for the clarification.

Hope this helps
    Andreas.

> Fernando.
> 
> > Hi Fernando,
> > 
> > Am Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 01:25:12PM +0000 schrieb Fernando Hueso:
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc:Fernando.Hueso at uv.es
> > > 
> > > Both opensuse16 and fedora44 have civetweb packages that were built with the ZLIB and XDOM_SOCKET options enabled when configuring, which are features required to be able to be serve as dependency of CERN'S ROOT software.
> > > While it's not urgent to have the same functionality in Debian, it would be great to not lag many months behind, so I am filling this feature-request to not forget about that on the middle term.
> > > The necessary changes are already merged in Salsa repository thanks to A. Tille, so only the upload is missing.
> > I've just did a "Team upload" with you set as maintainer since
> > the actual changes which are fixing the bug were done by you.
> > Feel free to push your changes directly next time.
> > 
> > Thank you for your contribution
> >      Andreas.
> > 

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