[php-maint] Bug#665088: php5: Install fails due to errors (dash-isms?) in post-install scripts

[Michael Alan Dorman]

Package: php5
Version: 5.4.0
Severity: important

I'm seeing the following on a system when upgrading to 5.4.0-2:

Setting up php5-gd (5.4.0-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-gd.postinst: line 21: local: can only be used in a function
dpkg: error processing php5-gd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up php5-ldap (5.4.0-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-ldap.postinst: line 21: local: can only be used in a function
dpkg: error processing php5-ldap (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up php5-imap (5.4.0-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-imap.postinst: line 21: local: can only be used in a function
dpkg: error processing php5-imap (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I assumed this was a bash-ism that had crept into the scripts being
run on a system with /bin/sh linked to dash, but actually, this system
has /bin/sh linked to bash, so I guess this ends up being a dash-ism.

I simply edited the scripts to remove the 'local' modifiers and they
seem to have run fine, but I could easily see this being confusing to
other users.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash