[php-maint] Bug#833543: Bug#833543: Error in package dependencies results in regular cron email alerts

[Ondřej Surý]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi,

thanks for the bug report. This cannot be solved by adding dependency
because it would create a circular dependency
(php5-cli->php5-common->php5-cli), but I could probably check whether
the interpreter is present and exit the script if it isn't.

Cheers,
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 20:26, deb at gi2.herzkes.de wrote:
> Package: php5-common
> Version: 5.6.24+dfsg-0+deb8u1
> 
> After uninstalling apache and most php packages from an installation, I
> get an email every 30 minutes from cron:
> 
> 
> From: root@[...] (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@[...]
> Subject: Cron <root@[...]>   [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] &&
> /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean
> 
> /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean: 34: /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean: php5: not
> found
> 
> 
> The leftover php packages are:
> $ dpkg -l *php* | grep ^ii
> ii  php5-apcu                 4.0.7-1              amd64        APC User
> Cache for PHP 5
> ii  php5-common               5.6.24+dfsg-0+deb8u1 amd64        Common
> files for packages built from the php5 source
> 
> The installation has never had any package conflicts.
> 
> This looks to me like the php5-common debian package requires an
> executable php5 to be present, but neither provides this executable nor
> depends on another package that provides it.
> 
> Of course my personal solution is to also uninstall php5-common, but I
> think the missing dependency here should be addressed.
> 
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