Missing Files for Apache2::SizeLimit in libapache2-mod-perl2 (2.0.5-2 oneiric 2.0.5-5 precise)

[Oliver Flimm]

There is an inconsistency in the libapache2-mod-perl2 (2.0.5-2) package in oneiric. Apache2::SizeLimit consists of

Apache/SizeLimit.pm
Apache/SizeLimit/Core.pm
Apache2/SizeLimit.pm

plus manpages.

Only Apache2/SizeLimit.pm is included in the package, but not the other two upon which the included file depends.

Possible solutions

1) Remove all Apache-SizeLimit related files so its possible to build and create/install a separate libapache2-sizelimit-perl package

2) Include all Apache-SizeLimit related files. This would result in a new dependency to the Perl Linux::pid-Module and the creation/addition of this package to Ubuntu.

Regards

Oliver

[Torsten Krah (tkrah)]

side effect: bugzilla3 with mod_perl is broken without this fix.

[Gerald Combs (gerald.combs)]

This affects Bugzilla 4.0 and 4.2 as well.

[srdjan (srdjan-djenka)]

This is still unresolved in precise. I believe the importance should be higher than medium.

[gork (johnl-blurbco)]

I agree; this is kind of a deal breaker for what is to some a critical piece of mod_perl functionality.

Although to be of any great use it requires Linux::PID which isn't even in the repository and must be built locally...

[Gerald Combs (gerald.combs)]

Is 2.0.5 strictly necessary? Manually installing https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/amd64/libapache2-mod-perl2/2.0.4-7ubuntu2 on oneiric seems to work fine.

[Sebastian Boehm (sometimesfood)]

Any news on this?

This seems to be fixed in Debian:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libapache2-mod-perl2.git;a=commitdiff;h=2581833
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661370

[Onno (ostraaten)]

Is this a showstopper for Bugzilla 4.2 on Ubuntu? Also for Ubuntu server?

[Onno (ostraaten)]

Is there a workaround?

[Vladi Gergov (vladi-1)]

this is also the problem for 12.04 LTS

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The Debian bug was fixed in 2.0.7-1 and Trusty is on 2.0.8+httpd24-r1449661-6ubuntu2, so presumably this has been fixed and now affects Precise only.

[Oliver Flimm (flimm-n)]

As far as I can see at least in wiley

Apache/SizeLimit.pm
Apache/SizeLimit/Core.pm
Apache2/SizeLimit.pm

are now all included. From utopic on even the liblinux-pid-perl is included as a package, but is still not listed as a dependency in libapache2-mod-perl - but no liblinux-pid-perl for trusty (LTS)...

So all there is to do is include liblinux-pid-perl as a dependency to fix this issue starting with utopic.

Nevertheless in the meantime I abandoned apache2/mod_perl for my webapp in favor of PSGI/starman, so fixing this bug no longer affects me.