Bug#666837: Bug#666800: Bug#666799: Apache 2.4 and the "other" libapache*-perl packages

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:40:47AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 13:38:50 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 
> > Now that apache 2.4 and the new mod-perl is in unstable, I looked at
> > the other libapache*-perl packages. They all fail the test suite
> > because they don't find an MPM.

> Status:
> - libapache-singleton-perl, libapache-authenhook-perl,
>   libapache2-reload-perl build, reviews/tests still welcome

These look OK to me.  Possibly we/upstream should make Apache::Test
provide at least a default MPM if one can't be parsed from the system
Apache configuration.  Still, it's much cleaner to have a standalone
configuration in the packaging.

The t/logs (and/or t/run?) directory creation should really be pushed
into Apache-Test, but having 'mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/t/logs' should be OK
as that doesn't fail if the directory already exists.

> - libapache2-authcookie-perl explodes in the test suite, and I have
>   no idea how to fix it (and if the problem is somewhere between
>   tests and packaging or if we have a more fundamental problem re.
>   apache auth* changes in general)  

There are Apache 2.4 API changes breaking this. At least this,
in Apache2::AuthCookie::authorize() 

    my $reqs_arr = $r->requires or return DECLINED;

>From t/logs/error_log:

  [Mon Jun 03 08:13:11.638444 2013] [perl:error] [pid 16238:tid 46981196248832] [client 127.0.0.1:35254] Can't locate object method "requires" via package "Apache2::RequestRec" at /home/niko/libapache2-authcookie-perl/blib/lib/Apache2/AuthCookie.pm line 391.\n

ap_requires() was removed in Apache2.4. From the documentation at
 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/new_api_2_4.html

    The core server now provides better infrastructure for handling
    Require configuration. Register an auth provider function for each
    supported entity using ap_register_auth_provider(). The function
    will be called as necessary during Require processing. (Consult
    bundled modules for detailed examples.)

I expect it's currently totally broken and we should drop the package
from testing for now. (The bug should probably be 'grave'.)

The unfortunate lack of a reference mod_perl2 version to test against
makes it a bit hard to report this upstream.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org