On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote:
On 3/2/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
tags 397457 -fixed
thanks
Note that this bug was marked as serious by the maintainer:
Note that the maintainer told the submitter that -10 solves the bug
and -9 isn't in the archive anymore. There's just -10 in both unstable
and testing.
The -9 package had a bug, that would cause the module to not load. This
is what was fixed in -10. There is also another problem (decribed below),
that produces a similar symptom.
> After further Sarge->Etchupgrade testing, it seems that this problem is
not
> an occasional fluke, but is at best non-deterministic. It needs to be
fixed
> properly as described in #404159.
I don't understand what this has to do with sarge->etch upgrade testing
given that php5-ming was not in sarge, hopefully the maintainer can explain
(and explain why this should be a release blocker).
I have a set of sarge backports of the packages that I have been using
on some production servers here. Technically, Steve is right in that
this doesn't apply to a sarge->etch upgrade, except on my servers (but
see below).
The remaining problem, is that the php package changed the scheme it
uses for identifying what modules to load. This happened around the
time -10 was uploaded, and the problem had not been seen (or at least
not recognized) then. The problem is that the php.ini file gets replaced
by the php package, and the addition of the phpN-ming module gets lost.
A 'dpkg-reconfigure phpN-ming' fixes the problem. This bug can be seen
in a testing->testing upgrade as well as the sarge->etch upgrade that is
only my problem. Bug 404159 is for this situation.
After doing a few more upgrades, I have seen this problem most of the
time, instead of the once which made me think it was just some kind of a
fluke. This is why I raised the severity. I didn't fix this back in
Deceember as I thought the old scheme was still adequate, and I didn't
want to be changing postinstalls so late in the release. Recent experience
has indicated it needs to be done anyway, so I have set aside some time this
weekend to prepare -11 packages.
I hope this cleans things up.
Stuart
Btw, if anyone can put in a good word for me with the DAM (I'm on the last
step of the NM process), I could save the time of hunting down my sponsor
to get the -11 packages uploaded. 8-)
Stuart R. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network & Software Engineering http://www.netsweng.com/
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