Package: libaprutil1 Version: 1.5.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi apr-util maintainer,
I would ask you to consider enabling gdbm support in apr-util so that users can use mod_authn_dbm in apache with AuthDBMType GDBM Because of performance problems with the size of a htpasswd file, we switched to using a gdbm file as it's the easiest performance upgrade available, with a big reward. Building the gdbm so was removed in 2006. Here's the commit, there's no explanation why at all in the commit, so that info is lost, or maybe Tollef Fog Heen will be reading this and remembering it. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-apache/apr-util.git/commit/?id=8e74bcdc83a53e4ef6bea1e1ae4b8993a410a834 When adding libgdbm-dev to the Build-Depends and changing --without-gdbm into --with-gdbm, the package will include /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/apr-util-1/apr_dbm_gdbm-1.so By the way, it works like a charm. It's O(1) lookups instead of O(N) and it saves a lot of cpu cycles otherwise spend parsing lines of text. Thanks, -- Hans van Kranenburg
