Bug#902493: apache2-bin: Event MPM listener thread may get blocked by SSL shutdowns

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:44:39 CET Gedalya wrote:
> On 2/13/19 12:38 AM, Jan Wagner wrote:
> > backports is not meant for fixing things. beside that it would require
> > all rebuilding most of the additional apache modules not shiped by the
> > apache2 source package.
> 
> So we're back to doing nothing at all?
> 
> I'm not at all advocating backports as a solution, rather suggesting that it
> would be _something_ that could be done while the issue is not fixed, for
> whatever reason.
> 
> As for rebuilding other sources packages, yes, but like you said, not only
> is backports not for fixing things, it has been traditionally known to
> break things as well. Packages from backports are indeed sometimes not
> installable to some users.
> 
> In my case I wasn't using any other modules (PHP via fcgi), so apache2, apr
> and apr-util were enough. Again, we're not forcing anyone to use this, nor
> are we saying that this addresses the issue.

I will think about it. It I definitely won't have time in the next 2-3 weeks.

Cheers,
Stefan