[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#985133: nginx: please provide nginx-dev package for packaging third party module

[Kentaro Hayashi]

Package: nginx
Version: 1.18.0-6
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: kenhys at xdump.org

The problem:

  It is hard to package nginx 3rd party modules
  because nginx package does not ship configure scripts.

Actual:

  No configure and auto/* conf/* src/* for building nginx 3rd party modules.

Expected:

* package nginx-dev.
* nginx-dev package provides:
  /usr/share/nginx/configure
  /usr/share/nginx/auto/*
  /usr/share/nginx/conf/*
  /usr/share/nginx/src/*

Then, 3rd party module can use these files in
debian/rules.

  ./configure --add-dynamic-module=$(CURDIR) ...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: sh4, powerpc, m68k

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nginx depends on:
ii  nginx-core  1.18.0-6+b1
ii  nginx-full  1.18.0-6

nginx recommends no packages.

nginx suggests no packages.