Hi @gstrauss

sorry about your frustration with the time_t transition. It was very
hard on Ubuntu due to the noble release, and even though debian has more
time, I'm sure it's difficult for them as well.

lighttpd in Ubuntu is in the universe repository, meaning it's
maintained by the community at large. That being said, we try to avoid
really hard to go ahead of debian in a new upstream release, and we
generally don't do that for universe packages.

I see you attached many patches to this bug, and it's bit convoluted
now. The original intent of this bug is to update to the latest upstream
release. For the ubuntu development release, I can say we will only
update to a new upstream version on top of a new debian update, i.e., if
debian updates to (say) 1.4.76, then ubuntu can rebase on top of that.
That's because since the package is in universe, there is no specific
team committed to maintaining it.

For stable releases, updating the package goes through a different
mechanism. We have the SRU[1] process for such updates, and each one has
to be analized, justified, end evaluated, against that criteria. Version
changes are generally frowned upon, with individual patches being
preferred. There are pros and cons, and the documentation goes over them
at length. If you wish to propose an SRU for lighttpd for some ubuntu
release, then that process must be followed.

I'll leave this bug open because at some point debian will get 1.4.76
(or later), and when we rebase on top of that, we can close the bug.

Hope this helps.

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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