Bug#227664: apache2-common: update-apache2-modules is broken python script

[Marc Cromme <marc@indexdata.dk>]

Package: apache2-common
Version: 2.0.47-1
Severity: normal

The update-apache2-modules debian python script is crashing like this:

sudo  update-apache2-modules --list mod_info

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 79, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 51, in main
    modhandler.dolist()
  File "/usr/sbin/modhandler.py", line 63, in dolist
    modregistry = shelve.open("/var/lib/apache2/modules")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 231, in open
    return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 212, in __init__
    Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag), protocol, writeback, binary)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/anydbm.py", line 83, in open
    return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py", line 16, in open
    return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 192, in hashopen
    d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode)
bsddb._db.DBNoSuchFileError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DbfilenameShelf instance has no attribute 'writeback'" in  ignored

Similary, the following fails:

 sudo  update-apache2-modules --add mod_info

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 79, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 43, in main
    modhandler.add(**args)
TypeError: add() argument after ** must be a dictionary

This one as well:

sudo  update-apache2-modules --enable mod_info

Turning mod_info on, babee!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 79, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apache2-modules", line 47, in main
    modhandler.enable(args[0])
  File "/usr/sbin/modhandler.py", line 90, in enable
    modregistry = shelve.open("/var/lib/apache2/modules")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 231, in open
    return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 212, in __init__
    Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag), protocol, writeback, binary)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/anydbm.py", line 83, in open
    return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py", line 16, in open
    return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 192, in hashopen
    d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode)
bsddb._db.DBNoSuchFileError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DbfilenameShelf instance has no attribute 'writeback'" in  ignored


Finally, there is no man page, and the output 
sudo  update-apache2-modules --help
Debian update-apache2-modules 0.5
Copyright (C) 2002 Thom May, under the BSD license.

    
usage: update-apache2-modules --add <module> [<sequence> <state> <depends>]
       update-apache2-modules --remove <module>
       update-apache2-modules --enable <module>
       update-apache2-modules --disable <module>
       update-apache2-modules --list <module>

<module>   is the name of the module
<sequence> is used to decide the order the modules are loaded in.
           The default if no sequence number is specified is 99
<state>    is used to determine whether the module should be 
           disabled (the default) or enabled on addition.
<depends>  signifies any dependencies the module might have

is not very helpful on the syntax - should I invoke with

sudo  update-apache2-modules --enable mod_info  or with
sudo  update-apache2-modules --enable info      ???
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cromme 2.4.20-knoppix #1 Mon Jun 2 10:20:36 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apache2-common depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.3.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.6.1        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libapr0                     2.0.47-1     The Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1                    4.1.25-10    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                    2.1.23-1     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  mime-support                3.23-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools                   1.60-8       The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  openssl                     0.9.7c-5     Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

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