On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 06:46:30PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
- Peter Boy [14/02/2024 11:08] :
Question is, what is upstream? If I remember correctly, we use historically httpd, which is a specially licensed version of Apache,
I believe (and I hope I'm corrected if I'm wrong) that, 20 years ago, the ASF asked that the server be refferred to as 'httpd' or 'Apache httpd' and that 'Apache' serve primarily to refer to the foundation.
So the package name was changed from 'apache' to 'httpd'.
Yup, exactly - we renamed the package when upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 in Red Hat Linux 9 (IIRC) since that was a breaking change anyway.
"httpd" is the proper name of the project under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation - "Apache httpd" aka "Apache HTTP Server". The tarballs started being called "httpd-X" from upstream starting in 2.0.x as well. So it made sense to reflect that in the packaging.
Regards, Joe