[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#743893: Bug#743893: mediawiki: postinst uses php5enmod, but fails to depend on a php5-common that has it

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> Setting up mediawiki (1:1.19.15+dfsg-1) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mediawiki.postinst: 78: php5enmod: not found

> Apparently, mediawiki needs a newer php5-common than that.

I agree with this, yes, but…

> Severity: serious

> ii  php5-common                  5.3.3-7+squeeze19            Common files for packages built from the php5 source

I disagree with this. Installing a package from jessie/sid on
a squeeze system is not supported in Debian, in the general
case (“skipping a release”), and this works in wheezy.

Anyway, I’ve just uploaded a version of mediawiki to sid which
depends on a “new enough” php5-common (with the latest fixes to
php5{en,dis}mod) since people are going to try this anyway (as
it’s generally unproblematic for “web” stuff like this).

Thanks for discovering!

bye,
//mirabilos
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