[plug] mod_perl2 issues resolved

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:14 +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
>  > open up apache under gdb and find that it's crashing in
> > modperl_env_request_tie() with a NULL pointer dereference. Google for
> > the function name, discover the patch, discover that Debian knows of the
> > issue but hasn't done anything about it, and for the rest of the story,
> > see http://bugs.debian.org/384622 . I rebuilt the package with the
> > upstream patch.
> 
> So what happens when someone does an innocent "apt-get dist-upgrade"?

I'm sure we'll hear about it ;)

More seriously, given that it's in the Debian BTS, a patch exists, it's
marked as 'important' and applies to the version in sarge and etch, I'm
optimistic that it will be fixed in a future upload.

On that topic though, what do people do about maintaining local patches
against distribution packages? I'd love for some way to automate the
process of noticing a new package version, grabbing the source, applying
the patches and - if they apply cleanly - rebuild it and install that
instead. It's been something I've been meaning to script up for a while,
but if there are better solutions out there, I'm all ears!

Regards,

Bernard.