Bug#681544: apache2-dev: provide dh_apache2 option to avoid enabling module by default
Package: apache2-dev
Version: 2.4.2-2
Severity: wishlist
Some Apache modules require global configuration for which there is no
reasonable defaults, and therefore require that the local administrator
do the configuration before the module can be enabled. Currently, those
modules require either doing something moderately complex in the
maintainer scripts using --conditional or disabling dh_apache2's
maintainer script handling with -n (and thereby losing the postrm handling,
for which the default behavior would be fine).
A nicer mechanism would be to allow the *.apache2 configuration file have
an option for mod *.load lines saying not to enable the module by default.
If the module is enabled, then Apache should still be restarted on upgrade
(or other configuration actions). If the module is not enabled or wasn't
previously installed, nothing should be done by default in postinst. The
postrm handling would remain the same.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apache2-dev depends on:
ii apache2 2.4.2-2
ii debhelper 9.20120608
ii libapr1-dev 1.4.6-3
ii libaprutil1-dev 1.4.1-2
ii openssl 1.0.1c-3
ii perl 5.14.2-12
apache2-dev recommends no packages.
apache2-dev suggests no packages.
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