Proftpd Memcache Support

[Klaipedaville on Google]

From: Francesco P. Lovergine 
Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 12:08
To: Klaipedaville on Google 
Cc: pkg-proftpd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org ; frankie at debian.org 
Subject: Re: Proftpd Memcache Support

Package: proftpd-basic
Version: 1.3.5~rc1-1

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:47:21AM +0300, Klaipedaville on Google wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could anybody at least comment on my below email, please? Thank you.
> 
> 
> From: Klaipedaville on Google 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 13:18
> To: pkg-proftpd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org 
> Cc: frankie at debian.org 
> Subject: Proftpd Memcache Support
> 
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> It looks like Wheezys proftpd packages have no memcache support compiled in. Do you ever plan to include it?
> 
> It produces the following notice:
> proftpd[]: mod_tls_memcache/0.1: notice: unable to register 'memcache' SSL session cache: Memcache support not enabled.
> 
> Proftpd has mod_tls_memcache built and loaded all right, but the package was not built with memcache support (i.e. the --enable-memcache configure option was not used when compiling proftpd). This is not a fatal or anything and I simply commented out the #LoadModule mod_tls_memcache.c in /etc/proftpd/modules.conf and it is working fine without any notices which took me quite some time to figure out this work around. However, the question is why do you limit the users on this option, is there a special reason for that? 
> 
> It is discussed here as well: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707680  (I am the one who replied to the only entry in this report).
> 
> I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you soon.
> 
> Regards,
> Dennis.

>The memcache support is properly enabled in >= 1.3.5~rc1-1 which has been
>released after the freeze. You are pointing a wheezy issue of course and 
>the proper way to fix is using a backports of a later version. As explained in
>the changelog, a proper enabling triggers one more build-dep and the freezing
>at the time discourages those practices for minor issues in the package.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine
Buongiorno Francesco,
Thank you for replying.
Are you basically saying that I have to update to a newer version manually? How come you do not do it via packages and regular updates? Let’s with the second regular packaged update of proftpd this feature would be compiled and simply updated for all the users? Am I missing the point here perhaps? What kind of minor issues did it have with the memcache support enabled?
Is it at least planned to enable this feature in future versions to come?
Regards,
Dennis.
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