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You might know that I made an unofficial package of Apache Lingerd some months ago, and by now, a couple of users pinged me back to let me know that they use it on their production servers.

The package itself seems to work properly (I personnaly use it for my website) and as the package was made with following Fabionne’s advices, I guess that everything would be ok for asking for an upload.

Well, not really, there was an important point to clarify before going on: security issues.
Does Lingerd has a security history that could block its inclusion in Debian? That’s the question to ask, and that’s why I mailed the Debian Security Team.

Martin Schulze’s answer sounds like uploading apache-lingerd to the archive is something possible. Great to read such a mail.

To be continued…

The first package I’m able to provide for sparc is apache-lingerd.

Don’t know if someone would find this .deb useful, but at least, it’s a proof that the lingerd stuff builds correctly under sparc.

Any feedback is welcome here.

If some of you here have the time for it, apache-lingerd is ready for
tests

I’ve packaged apache-lingerd in a new way :

• apache-lingerd is still compiled in the apache way, with being a new flavour (so no changes here).
• apache-lingerd now depends on apache-common-lingerd.
• apache-common-lingerd provides default conf for apache-lingerd and
  dpkg-diverts /usr/sbin/apache-modconf from apache-common.

This way, you can have both apache-lingerd and apache on the same box
and maintaining the apache-lingerd sources against the official apache
one becomes easier for me.

The numbering is similar to the apache’s one.

BTW, I’ve added a manpage for lingerd and that makes the apache-lingerd
package lintian valid

I’ve tested with success the package on two boxes but will be very
interesting in hearing your reports.

As there was some need for a Debian/sid compatible package, I´ve released a new version of apache-lingerd compiled against Debian´s apache_1.3.33-1.

I’ve also set up a webpage for this package, in order to provide a piece of information about it.

Feel free to grab it from my repository if you want

If you have a personal web server based on Apache, you´ll certainly be interested in using the lingerd daemon :

Lingerd is a daemon designed to take over the job of properly closing network connections from an http server like Apache.
[...]
Lingerd is particularily useful in Apache webservers that generate dynamic pages.

After some days of insane debian/rules hacking, I am proud to announce
that apache-lingerd is packaged.

Closing the #187460 RFP would be great !

You can get my package on my personal repository :

Add those lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.sukria.net/debian ./
deb-src http://www.sukria.net/debian ./

and install the package :

# apt-get update
# apt-get install apache-lingerd