[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#843777: temporarily loosen new nginx modules ban until separate module compilation available?

[Mark Van den Borre]

Hello,

(My below request is certainly a wishlist bug. I hope I pulled the
right levers so it comes across like so...)
> Both of these bugs are being merged with our no-new-modules bucket. We
> are working to allow any number of new modules, in the future; we're
> not there, yet. When we do get there, these bugs will be expected to
> be filed as ITP/RFP's. ;)

At https://fosdem.org , we are using the nginx rtmp module
intensively. It seems it is becoming a de facto standard when an
in-house streaming server is preferred, as opposed to an external
streaming platform. It combines excellently with ffmpeg, the recently
pacakged voctomix and several components of the gstreamer framework,
to create an excellent FOSS video streaming stack. Some debconf video
people too seem to be interested...

I've watched upstream nginx development for a bit. Dynamically loaded
modules are supported since 1.9.11, but separate module compilation
doesn't look like it is going to happen anytime soon.

Would you be willing to temporarily reconsider the ban on the
inclusion of a small set of new nginx modules into Debian until this
situation changes? If it helps, it seems like at least the rtmp module
could be done as a dynamically loaded module at least...

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/extending/converting/
https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-modules-development/

Thank you for your work on Debian!

Kind regards,

Mark
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Mark Van den Borre
https://fosdem.org staff