[php-maint] Bug#719060: php5-cli: /etc/php5/cli/php.ini not upgraded with package

[Bob Proulx]

Package: php5-cli
Version: 5.5.1+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Something appears to be wrong concerning the /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
file upgrade handling.  It is failing to prompt the user to install
the new file or keep the previous one.

  # apt-get purge php5-cli
  # apt-get install php5-cli=5.5.1+dfsg-1 php5-common=5.5.1+dfsg-1
  ...make some change to ensure that it is locally edited...
  # sed --in-place s/localhost/mailhost/ /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
  # apt-get upgrade
  ...no offer to upgrade the config file was presented...

If I go back to 5.4.4-14+deb7u2 with the same test as above then it
works okay.

  # apt-get purge php5-cli
  ...install the version from Wheezy to prep for an upgrade...
  # apt-get install php5-cli=5.4.4-14+deb7u2 php5-common=5.4.4-14+deb7u2
  ...make some change to ensure that it is locally edited...
  # sed --in-place s/localhost/mailhost/ /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
  # apt-get upgrade
  ...ucf dialog menu asking disposition of conffile...

Also trying to reinstall the same package does not prompt either.

  # apt-get purge php5-cli
  ...install the version from Wheezy to prep for an upgrade...
  # apt-get install php5-cli
  ...make some change to ensure that it is locally edited...
  # sed --in-place s/localhost/mailhost/ /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
  # apt-get install --reinstall php5-cli php5-common
  ...no offer to upgrade the config file was presented...

Bob