Hi, I am currently using Apache 2.4.25 from Debian Stretch on our webservers. As IPv6 becomes increasingly a popular, the truncating of IPv6 addresses in the Apache scoreboard has been bugging me for a long time now and is becoming increasingly painful. I have noticed that there was actually a patch to include/scoreboard.h almost five years ago that adresses this bug: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/include/scoreboard.h?view=log#rev1519556 This has however not been merged into the 2.4-tree so far, even 2.4.34 still has char client[32]. So I was wondering about the dev policy for such changes in trunk - am I right in assuming that this patch will not ever be backported to 2.4? I was contemplating building my own 2.4 flavour with this fix, but that would obviously break package management and I'd be on my own for any future fixes of Apache 2.4 in Debian, so that's not really an option. However, seeing that Debian Buster has already undergone package freeze and there's a high likelihood that there's not going to be an Apache 2.6 even in the next Debian release after Buster, it seems that the Apache scoreboard will remain broken for more years to come - and that's 4 years and 10 months after it was actually fixed in trunk. How are issues like this usually adressed? Is there some procedure to upvote a patch to be backported/merged into 2.4? I am just a humble user, not a dev, that's why I don't want to bother the dev list right away. Any advice? Kind regards Markus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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