[php-maint] Bug#577794: php5-common: default install doesn't clean up session files

[Paul Slootman]

Package: php5-common
Version: 5.3.2-1
Severity: normal

A default install (i.e. without modifying any of the relevant configs)
will put session files into /tmp (which is new compared to earlier
versions), but the /etc/cron.d/php5 script still searches
/var/lib/php5/ for old session files.

The old default of storing the session files in /var/lib/php5/ was fine,
why was this changed?  At the same time, the cron script should also
have been modified.

My vote is for reverting the location to /var/lib/php5/ (which I now
have put into my config; however Debian packages should do The Right
Thing out of the box).

I looked at #504053 but that is concerned with a modified config,
so that's a separate issue.


Thanks,
Paul Slootman


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5-common depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  sed                           4.2.1-6    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages php5-common recommends:
ii  php5-suhosin                 0.9.29-1+b1 advanced protection module for php

php5-common suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information