Debian Bug report logs - #452347
php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Arne Rusek <zonk@hukot.cz>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:45:46 +0100

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Package: php5-common
Version: 5.2.0-8+etch7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


Hi.

It was a surprise when sessions were lost after 1440s contrary to the
session.gc_maxlifetime setting in some /etc/php5/conf.d/foobar.ini.

Please add /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini search to the /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime script.

Best regards.

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Locale: LANG=en, LC_CTYPE=en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages php5-common depends on:
ii  sed                           4.1.5-1    The GNU sed stream editor

php5-common recommends no packages.

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Message #12 received at 452347-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael <atomo64@gmail.com>

To: 452347-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#452347: php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:18:39 -0600

tags 452347 wontfix
severity 452347 wishlist
thanks

On 21/11/2007, Arne Rusek <zonk@hukot.cz> wrote:
> Package: php5-common
> Version: 5.2.0-8+etch7
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
>
> Hi.
>
> It was a surprise when sessions were lost after 1440s contrary to the
> session.gc_maxlifetime setting in some /etc/php5/conf.d/foobar.ini.
>
> Please add /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini search to the /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime
> script.

conf.d/ won't be read for different values.
Please read this recent thread[1] to know why.

>
> Best regards.
>

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-php-maint/2007-November/003314.html


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Message #17 received at 452347@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>

To: 452347@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#452347: php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:36:32 +0100

On Wed 21 Nov 2007, Raphael wrote:
> >
> > It was a surprise when sessions were lost after 1440s contrary to the
> > session.gc_maxlifetime setting in some /etc/php5/conf.d/foobar.ini.
> >
> > Please add /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini search to the /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime
> > script.
> 
> conf.d/ won't be read for different values.
> Please read this recent thread[1] to know why.

I find this a bit unfortunate, the whole conf.d/ thing is very useful to
override the default settings without having to alter the distributed
php.ini (with the pain of merging in local changes whenever it gets
updated in the package). (24 minutes is quite low for e.g. being logged
into twiki, if you take a lot of time writing the page, by the time you
commit the change your session has expired and you've lost the text :-( )

The fix is trivial and it's hard to see what would break by this;
I had actually just finished patching /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime myself
before checking the bug list.

Please reconsider this.


Thanks,
Paul Slootman

Message #22 received at 452347@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Daley <debian@jon.limedaley.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <452347@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: php5: Me too

Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:37:10 -0400

Package: php5
Version: 5.2.5-3
Followup-For: Bug #452347


The arguments from the thread you quoted are talking about module changes, and why modules shouldn't be allowed to 
change the session lifetime.  However, perhaps I am alone in this, but I prefer to not touch the default configuration 
files, so then upgrades are easier.  gc_maxlifetime is currently the only change I have to make in php.ini.  All other 
changes can be done in the conf.d directory.

I guess the alternative is to modify the cron script and ignore the output of maxlifetime, since the cron job is less 
likely to change in an upgrade than php.ini.

-- System Information:
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5 depends on:
ii  php5-cgi                  5.2.5-3+lenny1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-common               5.2.5-3+lenny1 Common files for packages built fr

php5 recommends no packages.

Message #29 received at 452347@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: 452347@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#452347: [php-maint] Bug#452347: php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime should search /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini too

Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 11:29:25 +0200

Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 21 Nov 2007, Raphael wrote:
> > >
> > > It was a surprise when sessions were lost after 1440s contrary to the
> > > session.gc_maxlifetime setting in some /etc/php5/conf.d/foobar.ini.
> > >
> > > Please add /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini search to the /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime
> > > script.
> > 
> > conf.d/ won't be read for different values.
> > Please read this recent thread[1] to know why.
> 
> I find this a bit unfortunate, the whole conf.d/ thing is very useful to
> override the default settings without having to alter the distributed
> php.ini (with the pain of merging in local changes whenever it gets
> updated in the package).

Fully agreed.  I have always admired conf.d directories which reduce the
pain of merging configuration files after dist-upgrades and checking each
and every setting.  I thought and would have hoped this was true for PHP
as well.

> into twiki, if you take a lot of time writing the page, by the time you
> commit the change your session has expired and you've lost the text :-( )

With regards to this, and since I run into similar problems with
different applications every once in a while, 24 minutes seem to
be rather low.  60 minutes are better, sometimes a couple of hours
are required, but that's a different story.

> Please reconsider this.

+1

Regards,

	Joey

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Message #34 received at 452347-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

To: 452347-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in 5.4.0~rc8-1

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:26:36 +0200

Version: 5.4.0~rc8-1

php5 (5.4.0~rc8-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Imported Upstream version 5.4.0~rc8
  * Improve maxlifetime script to scan for more SAPIs and scan all *.ini
    in conf.d directory
  * Move php5-mysqlnd to Priority: extra to make debcheck happy
  * Check for dpkg-maintscript-helper existence in php5-fpm maintainer
    scripts
  * Add Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) | dpkg-maintscript-helper to
    allow single upgrade path (dpkg-maintscript-helper package will be
    provided for Ubuntu Lucid PPA)

 -- Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:37:05 +0100

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