[DRE-maint] Bug#804195: libapache2-mod-passenger: Incompatible with apache 2.4.17

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Package: libapache2-mod-passenger
Version: 5.0.7-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

I found that the front page of my Redmine installation using passenger would
not work -- I would instead get an apache error about directory indexes not
being allowed.

After many hours of searching, I finally found that I was not the only one,
and it turns out to be an incompatibility with passenger and a specific
version of apache.

Upstream discussions of this issue:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phusion-passenger/jiOpv9Isua4
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58498
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/pull/1642
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/1648

And the patch submitted to upstream (scheduled for inclusion in a future
release) that fixes this:

https://github.com/covener/passenger/commit/b70b0e8e9ee14a2dbda94ca92545fb3b07c30f24

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-passenger depends on:
ii  apache2-bin [apache2-api-20120211]  2.4.17-1
ii  libapr1                             1.5.2-3
ii  libaprutil1                         1.5.4-1
ii  libc6                               2.19-22
ii  libgcc1                             1:5.2.1-22
ii  libstdc++6                          5.2.1-22
ii  passenger                           5.0.7-3

libapache2-mod-passenger recommends no packages.

libapache2-mod-passenger suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information