Comment 18 for bug 1243076

I have confirmed what Shane described above. It seems that upstream are inactive. I haven't been able to find any sign that upstream have ported this module to the Apache 2.4 API, which is a requirement for making this work with Apache 2.4. The package has been removed from Debian testing for this reason already. I presume that all other distributions will follow suit as they upgrade to Apache 2.4.

Thus, I will file a bug to have this package permanently removed from Ubuntu.

If someone ports the upstream code to Apache 2.4, then this situation could change. However, feature freeze is coming up, so it seems unlikely to me that this will make Trusty.

I get the impression that many people have ended up here because they want to install a LAMP stack, since some instructions somewhere state that this package should be installed to get a LAMP stack. This is incorrect. This package is only required for Apache authentication against MySQL (as opposed to doing it at the web app end, which is far more common). It appears to me that there are cargo culted instructions floating around the Internet.

Since there is nothing that can be done about this situation in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug Won't Fix.