[php-maint] Removing of php modules (.ini file problem)

[Raphael Geissert]

Hi,

On Friday 17 July 2009 10:20:00 sean finney wrote:
> hi guillame,
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:13:41AM +0200, Guillaume Delacour wrote:
> > [...]
> > PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
> > '/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/mcrypt.so'
> > - /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/mcrypt.so: cannot open shared object file:
> > No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
> > [...]
>
> iirc this is a general problem right now with packaging loadable modules,
> which isn't directly fixed anywhere.  i believe that raphael's ini changes
> were supposed to address this centrally with an apache2-style system
> that use some kind of symlink farm to enable/disable them, but i could
> be wrong.

That's right. I will try to push those changes a couple of weeks after 
debconf.

Regarding using sed to modify the configuration, as a matter of fact it is a 
policy violation, since the package should not modify the config file without 
the user allowing the change.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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