The collection had two roles for the same service: this one, deb only, and an EL
only 'httpd' role in a library that is no longer maintained.
The namespace is apache_*. The httpd_* names are gone rather than aliased: an
alias that silently stops matching is the failure mode this merge is meant to
remove. httpd_main_packages becomes apache_packages, httpd_ssl_enabled becomes
apache_ssl_modules_enabled, everything else is a mechanical rename.
Packages, service name, config directory, user and group carry the distribution
test inside the default itself, the convention already used by the postgresql
role, so they stay overridable from host_vars and group_vars. The package list
uses a single Jinja expression rather than an {% if %} block, which would render
the list as its repr.
apache_servertokens keeps the value the absorbed role used, OS, rather than the
safer Prod: changing it here would be a silent change for every host that
inherits the default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018sTDubHhviDWKZLtAtZXTW
Andrea Dell'Amico
Tommaso Piccioli
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