Control: reassign -1 php-common Thanks, this makes sense (although for a different package).
Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) [email protected] > On 28. 11. 2025, at 12:30, Wizardry and Steamworks > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: php8.4 > Version: 8.4.11-1 > > Hello! > > We have noticed that the PHP configuration file installed by default with the > PHP 8.4 package contains a note that states that cleaning up session files on > Debian, specifically is offloaded as a task to Cron. Specifically, here is > the quote from a "php.ini" file: > > ; This is disabled in the Debian packages due to the strict permissions > ; on /var/lib/php. Instead, GC is performed through /etc/cron.d/php, > ; which uses the session.gc_maxlifetime setting. Please, check > ; /usr/share/doc/php8.2-common/README.Debian.gz for further reference. > session.gc_probability = 0 > > However, the php8.4 package does not mark the "cron" package as a dependency > such that it invariably leads to filling up the session directory with > session files given that nothing else is cleaning up the session files. > > Aside from using up a lot of hard-drive space, when and if the session > directory fills, then the services start failing, and PHP complains that > there is no more space to create session files. > > In case the decision will be to maintain the PHP configuration as-is then it > would be advisable to make the PHP packages depend on Cron such that they can > be installed together. > > Thank you!
