Bug#1000072: libapache2-mod-qos: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Pascal Buchbinder]

Hi

mod_qos 11.73 has been release. This release introduces support of the PCRE2 (10.x) library in place of the now end-of-life PCRE version 1 (8.x) API.

The module no longer has an explicit dependency to the PCRE library (but uses ap_pregcomp(),  ap_regexec(), and ap_regexec_len() from ap_regex.h.) Wrapping the PCRE (v1) and PCRE2 interface by the Apache httpd allows use of the new API version (depends on locating pcre2-config). PCRE2 compatibility requires Apache httpd 2.4.53 or newer.

All the support utilities have been migrated to PCRE2 API (version 10.x). Tested with PCRE version 10.41.

Best regards,

Pascal

[Stefan Baier]

Package: libapache2-mod-qos
Version: 11.63-1+b2
Followup-For: Bug #1000072
X-Debbugs-Cc: tec...@planet-ic.de

Apache mod_qos is in default bookworm sources still not useable out-of-the-box.
If module is loaded, the daemon is not able to start and throws an error depending
the mod_qos library:
"[…] mod_qos.so: undefined symbol: pcre_free […]"

Purging the old pcre version is not possible, due to the dependency to libapache2-mod-qos.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-qos depends on:
ii apache2-bin [apache2-api-20120211] 2.4.57-2
ii libapr1 1.7.2-3
ii libaprutil1 1.6.3-1
ii libc6 2.36-9
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-15
ii libpng16-16 1.6.39-2
ii libssl3 3.0.8-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

libapache2-mod-qos recommends no packages.

libapache2-mod-qos suggests no packages.

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[Matthieu Schapranow]

Hi all,

Currently, libapache2-mod-qos is still at 11.63 in stable and unstable although the latest release version is 11.74 from early May 2023 available at SF.net. I hope that our great packet maintainer Sergey finds some time to build an updated version, because many users depend on a working version of mod_qos as part of bookworm.

Thanks in advance for your efforts!

Matthieu