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

[Nicolas Dandrimont]

Control: tags -1 + patch

* Michael Lustfield <michael at lustfield.net> [2017-02-20 12:20:29 -0600]:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:31:18 +0100
> Mark Van den Borre <mvandenborre at fosdem.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That first response you got is a little bit of a bummer to read, but it also
> indicates we /might/ /maybe/ actually be able to finally get somewhere.
> 
> > 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 have experience with debian packaging, you can discuss an idea with us
> in #debian-nginx on oftc.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This actually isn't a bad idea, but maybe we can start off with the inclusion?

Hey,

I took a stab at this during my one-person-DebConf-video-sprint today, and
you'll find the resulting patch attached (or on master at
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/olasd/nginx.git).

Cheers,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont

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