[php-maint] Bug#490023: install of php5-pgsql should ideally reload apache2 if libapache2-mod-php5 is in use

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, sean finney wrote:

> the problem with this approach is that every php5 module would require such a 
> reload of apache whenever it was installed or upgraded, which is "less than 
> ideal", and why i believe that it has not yet been implemented.  i'm pretty 
> sure this problem has been reported in the past but after digging through the 
> open reports i can't seem to find it.  

Yeah, that problem occurred to me (I myself was installing several PHP
packages) and I had guessed that triggers was probably the answer.  I'm
afraid my dpkg-foo is far below yours though so I won't be much help at
this moment.

> if anyone else is knowledgeable and/or interested in implementing such a 
> feature, i'd be happy to review it (though time is quite limited for making 
> it to lenny with such a patch).  otherwise i'll throw a "help" tag and 
> forward it to a wider audience.

Sounds like a good plan.

Gavin