[php-maint] Bug#452347: Bug#452347: php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

[Joey Schulze]

Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 21 Nov 2007, Raphael wrote:
> > >
> > > It was a surprise when sessions were lost after 1440s contrary to the
> > > session.gc_maxlifetime setting in some /etc/php5/conf.d/foobar.ini.
> > >
> > > Please add /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini search to the /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime
> > > script.
> > 
> > conf.d/ won't be read for different values.
> > Please read this recent thread[1] to know why.
> 
> I find this a bit unfortunate, the whole conf.d/ thing is very useful to
> override the default settings without having to alter the distributed
> php.ini (with the pain of merging in local changes whenever it gets
> updated in the package).

Fully agreed.  I have always admired conf.d directories which reduce the
pain of merging configuration files after dist-upgrades and checking each
and every setting.  I thought and would have hoped this was true for PHP
as well.

> into twiki, if you take a lot of time writing the page, by the time you
> commit the change your session has expired and you've lost the text :-( )

With regards to this, and since I run into similar problems with
different applications every once in a while, 24 minutes seem to
be rather low.  60 minutes are better, sometimes a couple of hours
are required, but that's a different story.

> Please reconsider this.

+1

Regards,

	Joey

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