[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] nginx - experimental 1.22.0-2~exp3

[Thomas Ward]

If we remove the Lua module, it will break existing installations that 
depend on Lua.  Adding the separate Lua module back in later will result 
in some... problems.

If we go and do a separate lua packaging as well, we need to go through 
ITP and NEW again for a separate source package, and we need to make 
sure that the current NGINX maintainers are kept identical in the new 
packages as well.  We will also need a DD to give us dak permissions for 
ftp-master upload permissions too.

I'm not against removal of the Lua module, but if we're going to do 
that, we're going to have to do so carefully.



Thomas



On 7/22/22 13:01, Jan Mojzis wrote:
> Hello,
> I am sending information about the conclusion from the last 
> experimental version 1.22.0-2~exp3.
> The goal of the testing was to verify how a separate lua module works.
> And the second was to test the migration to the PCRE2 library.
>
> Good news:
> - The standalone lua module works as expected, thanks nginx-dev and 
>  libnginx-mod-http-ndk-dev,
> testing pipeline here: 
> https://salsa.debian.org/janmojzis/ngx-lua/-/pipelines/402864 (piuparts, 
> reprotest failed, but it's not problem with package)
> - The migration to PCRE2 library work for NGINX
>
> Bad news:
> - The migration to PCRE2 library doesn't work for lua even in the 
> latest lua version.
> e.g. issue: https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/issues/1984
> This is big issue,
> and unfortunately the fix is not simple :(
>
> So, in the next version, I propose to remove the lua module,
> just like the Ubuntu developers did.
> When lua maintainer fixes pcre2 problems, we will be ready to release 
> new separate ngx-lua package.
>
> If it's ok, I will prepare exp4, which will have this change, plus I 
> would solve a couple of issues, e.g. 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876365
>
> Jan
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