[php-maint] Bug#879796: short_open_tag occurs in php.ini twice

[Ken Chase]

Package: php5-common
Version: 5.6.30+dfsg-0+deb8u1  
Severity: normal

This is not a repeat of bug #812323 which listed two issues:

- why are there two 'short_open_tag's in php.ini
- why is it default 'off'

only the second question was answered, the first still occurs. This is still a bug.

This caused me and many others to spend hours wondering why our changes to
php.ini setting short_open_tag = On wasn't working. Much 3rd party software written
in PHP depends on short_open_tags - not all software can be easily updated
to use long open tags.

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12579448/php-short-open-tag-on-not-working

No other debian package has multiple repeat directives in a central conf file
where the second overrides the first. This is confusing. While using a
conf.d/file to override the directive with local admin's choice may work, it's
still counterintuitive to have repeat entries.

/kc
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Ken Chase - Guelph Canada