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

[Mark Van den Borre]

I did some further research.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-modules-development/ and specificly
https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-modules-development/#comment-3165213773
clearly indicate that no progress should be expected from nginx on
further independence of nginx module compilation from the main nginx
source tree.

After reading this, it's not entirely clear to me what the ban on new
nginx modules in Debian is about.

Could you clarify what the goal is you are working towards? Is there
any place where help might be useful on this trajectory?

If you were us, absent any "go" for inclusion into Debian, what would
you do? Currently thinking here is to produce a dyn load
nginx-rtmp-module Debian package compiled against the Debian nginx
source package. We'd have to host it outside Debian, of course :-( ,
but it seems like this would keep us as close to Debian as possible,
and maximise the chances for future inclusion.


On 17 February 2017 at 21:24, Mark Van den Borre
<mvandenborre at fosdem.org> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Mark Van den Borre
> https://fosdem.org staff



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Kind regards,

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