Bug#398177: [php-maint] Bug#398177: libapache2-mod-php4: Non-changes to php.ini not detected correctly

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 01:09:46PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > When I upgraded libapache2-mod-php4 from version 4.4.4-3 to 4.4.4-6, ucf
> > > asked be if I wanted to keep my modified php.ini file, or if I wanted to
> > > install the new file but... I never made any changes to the php.ini file.

> > So you never installed any php extension packages, or you refused to let
> > these packages auto-update php.ini for you?

> Do you mean php extensions packages write to php config file ? That
> sounds like a policy infrigment to me... As far as I can tell, there is
> a conf.d directory containing the php4-mysql config, though I can't tell
> for sure if it was the case before.

It's not a conffile and it's coordinated, so no, it's not a policy
infringement -- it's just messy.

When I first installed the new package I did get the ucf prompt, because my
old php.ini had extension= lines added to it as expected.  But Sean seems to
think that this may happen even with an unmodified php.ini; he probably
knows better than I do.

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