On 9/17/2010 8:10 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 9/17/2010 8:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Sep 17 07:43, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> On 9/17/2010 12:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. >>>> Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would >>>> like to take over maintainership. >>> >>> apache2 is a build dependency for subversion, so if you remove it from >>> the distro, I will need to package a copy of the sources with the >>> subversion sources and modify my cygport to build it as well as >>> subversion. I prefer not to do that. >> >> Isn't there some kind of apache2 lib which can be handled as a >> separate package? If so, and if you would provide only libapache, >> we're off the hook. No bit-rotten apache2 package, and no unjust >> maintainance burden for you. > > Well, I need apache2-devel. That has a dependency on apache2, but I'm > not really sure how much of that I need to *build* subversion. > > The test suite for subversion does actually start apache2 in order to > test the subversion module, but if the distro doesn't provide apache2, I > suppose I can try to avoid building the module and running those tests. > That might remove the dependency on apache2, too. I'll investigate.
apache2-devel is not needed by subversion if I don't build the apache2 module. I do need to install a native apache2 instance with subversion support in order to test the http support in the client, but I suppose I can do that. Okay by me to remove apache2 from the distro. I'll try to spin a new subversion release soon without subversion-apache2. I need to get the native apache2/svn server running first. -- David Rothenberger ---- daver...@acm.org "If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple