I think this bug is at least fixed in 2.0.55-4.2.
I looked at the initscript of apache2 and found this as reload:
log_begin_msg "Reloading apache 2.0 configuration..."
if $APACHE2CTL graceful $2 ; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
it does a graceful restart, without interrupting the current
connections.
It doesn't do anything if the configuration files are broken (it does a
configtest before the reload) and if they aren't broken the apache is
reloaded.
If the apache doesn't run, apache is started.
I think this is a good behaviour of the initscript and think the bug can
be closed.
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