[php-maint] [PATCH] New way to handle extensions

[Raphael]

Hello Steve,

First of all I would like to ask you to CC me on message replies as
I'm not in the list (I found the message in the list's archive).

> Yes, the main problem I have with the proposal to turn the conf.d symlinks
> into directories in one swoop is that it leaves a gap where a user can have
> the new version of php installed with an old version of an extension
> package, and either the extension won't be available to the engine or
> removing the extension package will leave behind a symlink that won't be
> cleaned even on purge.
For this I'm quoting my original message:

> And finally (I hope I'm not missing anything ;-) ), I also added a
> per-extension postrm script template that causes all the symbolic
> links to be removed, preventing all those php5 warnings about missing
> extensions.
That postrm script takes care of removing all the symbolic links that
could exist. Of course this action is only performed when the package
is being removed/purged and not when it is upgraded (in order to keep
the extension enabled after upgrading to a new version).

> Although... if we do the symlink->directory conversion at the same time as a
> PHP ABI change, we can sidestep this problem completely.  Do we have one of
> those coming up?
How is that?

> Yeah, I don't see any obvious reason why a pre-dep would be needed here.
Ok, let's forget about the pre-dep's.

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