[php-maint] Bug#357522: mime_magic warnings about application/x-awk

[Norbert Veber]

Package: libapache-mod-php4
Version: 4:4.4.2-1
Severity: important

Hi,

I run apache through inetd on my system.  Recently I installed a new
version of libmagic1 which is causing php to print a warning to stdout
every time apache is run.  This extra junk on stdout causes clients to
be unable to connect to apache.

ie.
$ telnet pyre.virge.net https
Trying 206.248.139.39...
Connected to pyre.
Escape character is '^]'.
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type regex		BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{]
application/x-awk invalid in Unknown on line 0


Apparently its complaining about line 273 in /usr/share/file/magic.mime:
0       regex           BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{]    application/x-awk

This in the only line in the file that has a regex rule.

According to http://ca3.php.net/mime_magic:
Note:  This extension is not capable of handling the fully decorated
magic file that generally comes with standard Linux distro's and is
supposed to be used with recent versions of file command.

Perhaps php should ship and use its own magic file?

In the mean time, the only way I can get apache working again is to
disable php4.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libapache-mod-php4 depends on:
ii  apache-common 1.3.34-2                   support files for all Apache webse
ii  debconf [debc 1.4.72                     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.3-2                    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6         2.3.6-3                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcomerr2    1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 common error description library
ii  libdb4.3      4.3.29-5                   Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1     1.95.8-3                   XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgdbm3      1.8.3-2                    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libkrb53      1.4.3-6                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libmagic1     4.17-1                     File type determination library us
ii  libpcre3      6.4-1.1                    Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libssl0.9.8   0.9.8a-8                   SSL shared libraries
ii  libzzip-0-12  0.12.83-5                  library providing read access on Z
ii  mime-support  3.36-1                     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php4-common   4:4.4.2-1                  Common files for packages built fr
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.3-11                 compression library - runtime

libapache-mod-php4 recommends no packages.

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