Bug#666822: Apache 2.4 upload date scheduled for May 30; mod_perl needs work

[Dominic Hargreaves]

[Ccing debian-perl to get a slightly greater awareness of the issue.]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:13:53PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> we are ready to upload Apache2 2.4 to Debian Sid now. This means the
> transition is effectively starting now, and going to break your modules.
> 
> 
> We have scheduled the upload for May 30, 2013 BEFORE the 19:52 UTC
> dinstall on ftp-master.
> 
> To minimize the breakage to our Sid users, we'd ask all of you having a
> transitioned package ready in Experimental, to make an upload to Sid
> AFTER the 13:52 UTC dinstall, and BEFORE 19:52 UTC [1].

Dear all,

Unfortunately we haven't progressed very far with this issue so far;
as things stand mod_perl will become uninstallable in Debian unstable
in a week or so (after more than a year since this bug was created).

I would have liked to have had a bit more time to look into this but
haven't found the time yet.

Based on comments on the upstream dev list, principally [1] last month,
the main blocker to getting a release out with 2.4 support appears to to
do with a single release which supports for both httpd 2.2 and 2.4. Whilst
I view this as the best general approach, to solve the issue in Debian,
it might be that all/most of what's needed to prepare a
libapache2-mod-perl2 which can be targetted at Apache 2.4 is in the
upstream httpd24 branch (and if we are already in the situation where the
Apache maintainers are going ahead with an upload to unstable, the downside
of having to coordinate uploads isn't so much of an issue). It would
involve carrying a probably large patch until the work is merged upstream,
but it is probably the best choice we have at this point.

Is there anyone who is able to look at this in the next few weeks by
seeing if it possible to prepare a package (targetted initially at
experimental) which works with Apache 2.4? It is creeping up my todo list,
but more help definitely welcome at this stage.

Cheers,
Dominic.

[1] <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-dev/201304.mbox/%3C1432642653.2888638.1366352545568.JavaMail.root%40redhat.com%3E>

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