Bug#253203: apache will not start due to syntax error

["William R. McDonough" <wrmcd@wilmcd.com>]

> > Do  you have mod_perl installed (dpkg --status libapache-mod-perl) ?

[root@janitor: ~]$ dpkg --status libapache-mod-perl
Package: libapache-mod-perl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 1276
Maintainer: Debian Apache Maintainers <debian-apache@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: apache (1.3.31-1)
Version: 1.29.0.2-8
Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.31-1), apache-common (<< 1.3.32-0), perl
(>= 5.8.
4-2), libwww-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libdevel-symdump-perl,
liburi-perl, libc
6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.4)
Suggests: apache-dev (>= 1.3.31-1), libapache-mod-perl-doc
Description: Integration of perl with the Apache web server
 mod_perl allows the use of Perl for just about anything
 Apache-related, including <Perl> sections in the config
 files and the famous Apache::Registry module for caching
 compiled scripts.
 .
 It can produce anywhere from a 400% to 2000% speed increase
 on sites using perl scripts, and is used on many large script-
 based web sites - for example, http://slashdot.org.