Bug#187460: Need some help to package apache-lingerd

[Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net>]

Hello there.

I'm pretty interested in trying to package apache-lingerd, which has
been requested for more than 500 days now :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187460 

Could someone point me to some piece of docs on how the Debian Apache
Maintainers team bild their package ?

The fact is that lignerd needs the following steps to be packaged :

First step : building lingerd :

- tuning of config.h file
- user creation : 'lingerd'
- directory creation for hosting pidfile and unix domain socket
  (/var/run/lingerd).
- compilation of lingerd binary and installation of it.

Second step : patching Apache.

- add some files to the apache src source tree 
- patch some apache native files
- compile apache

Third step :

- update the init.d startup script for apache : lingerd must be launched
  before apache to work properly.

I'm sure that the team has a lot of guidelines to build such a package
but I cannont find any docs about this.

Help will be welcome :)


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