Package: simpleid Severity: important User: debian-apa...@lists.debian.org Usertags: apache24webapptransition
Dear maintainer, your package simpleid is a web application which supports the Apache2 web server. We're upgrading Apache to the new upstream version 2.4 [1] (tracked as transition bug #661958). This requires some changes in your package about how to interface to our package. You can test your package against our package available in sid. We have written packaging guidelines for our reverse dependencies [4]. Please read this document carefully, it should be able to answer most of your questions. Do also look at dh_apache2 (available through the dh-apache2 package) which can simplify shipping of Apache2 configuration files. In short, we want to highlight these changes you need to be aware of: * Do NOT declare a strong relation against apache2.2-common. Instead recommend "apache2 | httpd" in your package relationships. * Do NOT install any files to /etc/apache2/conf.d/. This directory is obsolete. Its successor is /etc/apache2/conf-available/ which can be interfaced through a2enconf/a2disconf * Do NOT call a2enconf/a2disconf in your maintainer scripts. Use our apache2-maintscript-helper [4] instead. This is required to get a uniform and stateful handling of all web applications interfacing with Apache2. * Please use the new authentication and authorization directives of Apache 2.4 [6]. While the old style directives are in principle still supported using mod_access_compat, mixing old and new style directives can cause problems. Moreover, the compatibility mode may be removed in a future release. You can look at our Apache 2.4 packaging hints [7] for hands-on tutorials. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00013.html [4] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-apache/apache2.git;a=blob;f=debian/PACKAGING;hb=next [5] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/new_api_2_4.html [6] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time [7] http://wiki.debian.org/Apache/PackagingFor24 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org