Lighttpd on Debian and Ubuntu

In the latest lighttpd-1.4.8 release, they removed the debian/ support:

(from the changelog)
removed debian/ dir from source package on request by packager

Sad :( For me i solved the problem with copying the directory from the old 1.4.7 release and fixing the changelog file. If you need better support, use bougyman's repository. In your debian or ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list add:

deb http://debian.bougyman.com/ unstable main

Bougyman is a very interesting person. He is working for some US goverment organization and supporting a huge Ruby On Rails system (something like a paperless office) - PostgreSQL, linux virtual server powered FastCGI listeners etc. I learned a lot from him about using RoR in production environments. Thanks. Seems bougyman is one of the main contributors for the Enterprise Ruby On Rails. Recently I found his typo blog - All-Purpose Log for Rubyists , full with useful information. Just to mention:

• Rails-Editor gem - pure man Locomotive for Linux :) producing screen based console IDE
• spawn-fcgi in the foreground! - we are using that approach too to start/stop dispatch.fcgi listeners independently from the frontend web server (lighttpd)