Bug#151384: apache2-common: Linux is not a version of GNU

[Thom May <thom@debian.org>]

tags 151384 wontfix
close 151384
thanks

Debian's full title  is "Debian GNU/Linux". This is what we are saying.
Cheers.
-Thom

* Kalle Olavi Niemitalo (kon@iki.fi) wrote :
> Package: apache2-common
> Version: 2.0.37-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Apache is returning headers like this:
> 
>   Server: Apache/2.0.37 Debian GNU/Linux (Unix)
> 
> According to RFC2616 parts 14.38 and 3.8, this means:
> 
> * The server uses a product "Apache" with version "2.0.37".
> * The server uses a product "Debian" with unspecified version.
> * The server uses a product "GNU" with version "Linux".
> * There is a comment "Unix".  The standard doesn't specify what
>   that means.
> 
> Note that "Linux" appears as a product-version of "GNU".
> RFC2616 part 3.8 states:
> 
> # Product tokens SHOULD be short and to the point. They MUST NOT be
> # used for advertising or other non-essential information. Although any
> # token character MAY appear in a product-version, this token SHOULD
> # only be used for a version identifier (i.e., successive versions of
> # the same product SHOULD only differ in the product-version portion of
> # the product value).
> 
> "Linux" is not a version of "GNU"; it is a product that has its
> own version numbers.  Thus it should not appear at the right side
> of the slash.
> 
> If you must have an equivalent of "Debian GNU/Linux" in the
> header, this might do:
> 
>   Server: Apache/2.0.37 Debian-GNU-Linux (Unix)
> 
> Or, if you prefer listing the parts as separate products,
> you could use something like these:
> 
>   Server: Apache/2.0.37 Debian GNU Linux (Unix)
>   Server: Apache/2.0.37 Debian/3.0 GNU Linux/2.4.18 (Unix)
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Kernel Version: Linux Astalo 2.4.18-kon.astalo.1 #1 ke kesä   26 12:20:32 EEST 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> Versions of the packages apache2-common depends on:
> ii  debconf        1.1.14         Debian configuration management system
> ii  debianutils    1.16.3         Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
> ii  libapr0        2.0.37-2       The Apache Portable Runtime
> ii  libc6          2.2.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii  libssl0.9.6    0.9.6d-1       SSL shared libraries
> ii  libxmltok1     1.1-8          XML Parser Toolkit, runtime libraries
> ii  zlib1g         1.1.4-1        compression library - runtime
> ii  libssl0.9.6    0.9.6d-1       SSL shared libraries
> 	^^^ (Provides virtual package libssl096)
> 
> 

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Thom May -> thom@debian.org

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--Pitr, UF


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