[DRE-maint] Bug#812103: libapache2-mod-passenger: redmine regression after mod-passenger upgrade

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

Package: libapache2-mod-passenger
Version: 2.2.11debian-2+deb6u1
Severity: normal

I recently upgraded libapache2-mod-passenger from 2.2.11debian-2
to 2.2.11debian-2+deb6u1 and found that our redmine 1.2.0.stable
(which is not installed from packages and likely obsolete)
would no more start with
  Status: 500 Internal Server Error
  private method `split' called for nil:NilClass
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.11/lib/action_controller/request.rb:337:in `query_string'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/request.rb:127:in `GET'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.10
  APT prefers squeeze-lts
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-passenger depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork  2.2.16-6+squeeze15  Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  libapr1              1.4.2-6+squeeze4    The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii  libaprutil1          1.3.9+dfsg-5        The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii  libc6                2.11.3-4+deb6u8     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.5-8           GCC support library
ii  libjs-prototype      1.6.1-1             JavaScript Framework for dynamic w
ii  librack-ruby         1.1.0-4+squeeze3    A modular Ruby webserver interface
ii  libruby1.8           1.8.7.302-2squeeze5 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.5-8             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  ruby                 4.5                 An interpreter of object-oriented 
ii  rubygems             1.3.7-3             package management framework for R

libapache2-mod-passenger recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-passenger suggests:
pn  passenger-doc         <none>             (no description available)
ii  python                2.6.6-3+squeeze7   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  rails                 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8 MVC ruby based framework geared fo

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