From: [email protected]

I've looked at the source for turck-mmcache, and I'll be supplying you
with a patch within 24 hours to fix this bug. It's not terribly
difficult to do it right. Please, please, with sugar on top, once I've
given you the patch (and you've applied it to your package), try to
convince upstream to change their ways and do it right.

... Adam



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From: [email protected]

Package: php4
Version: 4:4.3.8-5
Severity: important


The addition of the revision of the package to EXTRAVERSION, break some
other php packages which rely on the php version. This is at least true
for turck-mmcache package. Had to disable the cache to get apache to
start. Here is the output from the error.log:

PHP Fatal error: Unable to start Turck MMCache module in Unknown on
line 0
PHP Warning: [Turck MMCache] This build of "Turck MMCache" was compiled
for PHP version 4.3.8. Rebuild it for your PHP version (4.3.8-5) or
download precompiled binaries.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages php4 depends on:
ii apache-common 1.3.31-3 Support files for all Apache webse ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libmm13 1.3.0-3 Shared memory library - runtime
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-5 SSL shared libraries
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
php4/update_apache_php_ini: true


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From: [email protected]

reassign 265012 turck-mmcache
thanks

Robert Lindgren wrote:

PHP Fatal error: Unable to start Turck MMCache module in Unknown on
line 0
PHP Warning: [Turck MMCache] This build of "Turck MMCache"
was compiled
for PHP version 4.3.8. Rebuild it for your PHP version (4.3.8-5) or
download precompiled binaries.

This is a problem with turck mmcache that's needed addressing for a long
time. It should have been upward compatible from 4.3.4 all the way to
4.3.8, possibly even longer, as the interfaces it used never changed.
This should be addressed upstream in that module to actually do
something sane, like compare the phpapi versions, not the PHP version
itself. For Debian, perhaps the short-term fix is to patch the source
to be more relaxed about how it checks version strings. It's perfectly
legal to add an extraversion to PHP, and I don't intend to revert that
change.

... Adam

PS: For the record, I'm perfectly willing to work with the turck-mmcache maintainer to help fix this issue in Debian, if he'd like my help.

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From: [email protected]

Hi Adam,

I've looked at the source for turck-mmcache, and I'll be supplying you
with a patch within 24 hours to fix this bug.

Cool, thanks!

It's not terribly
difficult to do it right. Please, please, with sugar on top, once I've
given you the patch (and you've applied it to your package), try to
convince upstream to change their ways and do it right.

Unfortunately there's not much chance of that. In the entire time I've
been maintaining turck-mmcache I've never once had a single reply to any
of my emails to upstream. Not when I initially asked if they would mind
me packaging it, not when I've sent them patches, and not when I've
asked for help.

Of course I'm happy to make changes in the package itself, since that
seems to be the only way to get things done in this case.

Cheers :-)

Jonathan



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From: [email protected]

* Adam Conrad [Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:25:12 +1000]:

I've looked at the source for turck-mmcache, and I'll be supplying you
with a patch within 24 hours to fix this bug.

if you don't need a reminder for this, please ignore this mail. O:-)

thanks,

--
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predict the future is to invent it.
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Adeodato Sim� wrote:

if you don't need a reminder for this, please ignore this mail. O:-)

It's been on my plate, no worries. The 24 hour deadline just got pushed
back because I was working on the apache2 LFS transition.

... Adam

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