Debian Bug report logs - #652872
php5-cli: Configuration file includes deprecated option 'register_long_arrays'

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

From: Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net>

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

Subject: php5-cli: Configuration file includes deprecated option 'register_long_arrays'

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:46:52 +0000

Package: php5-cli
Version: 5.3.8.0-1+b1
Severity: normal

After upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I noticed the following error in my PHP scripts which are run on the command line:

PHP Warning: Directive 'register_long_arrays' is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and greater in Unknown line 0

Looking at the file /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, it contains the following line:

register_long_arrays = Off

This warning will not affect users by default, but I have switched the warning level to E_ALL (default is E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED).

It is possible to remove this warning by editing php.ini and commenting out the register_long_arrays line, but that means changing a Debian-supplied configuration file and may cause conflicts with any future updates.

If this option was commented out in the Debian-supplied file, it would not affect users, since it is disabled/Off anyway, but it would prevent warnings for anyone who has switched on all errors. I also think it should be commented out with a view to being removed completely, because this option has been deprecated upstream and the PHP documentation explictly warns that 'relying on this feature is highly discouraged'.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages php5-cli depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0        1.0.6-1
ii  libc6             2.13-21
ii  libcomerr2        1.42-1
ii  libdb5.1          5.1.25-11
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.10+dfsg~alpha1-6
ii  libk5crypto3      1.10+dfsg~alpha1-6
ii  libkrb5-3         1.10+dfsg~alpha1-6
ii  libmagic1         5.09-2
ii  libonig2          5.9.1-1
ii  libpcre3          8.12-4
ii  libqdbm14         1.8.78-1+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.0e-3
ii  libxml2           2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii  mime-support      3.51-1
ii  php5-common       5.3.8.0-1+b1
ii  tzdata            2011n-1
ii  ucf               3.0025+nmu2
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

php5-cli recommends no packages.

Versions of packages php5-cli suggests:
pn  php-pear  <none>

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Message #10 received at 652872-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

To: 652872-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: register_long_arrays was removed from PHP 5.4

Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:22:03 +0100

Version: 5.4.0~beta2-1

Hi,

we have been using upstream supplied configuration files which
included this deprecated directive.  As it was removed from PHP 5.4
it got fixed upstream. Marking as fixed in first PHP 5.4 version that
appeared in Debian.

O.
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

Message #15 received at 652872@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net>

To: 652872@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#652872 closed by Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> (register_long_arrays was removed from PHP 5.4)

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:54:53 +0000

On 08/02/12 19:24, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the php5-cli package:
>
> #652872: php5-cli: Configuration file includes deprecated option 'register_long_arrays'
>
> It has been closed by Ondřej Surý<ondrej@sury.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Ondřej Surý<ondrej@sury.org>  by
> replying to this email.

Will 5.4 make it into Squeeze though? If not then the configuration file 
is going to be broken (or at least include a deprecated option which 
causes warnings) until the next full release.

Can the php.ini file not be patched to fix this, just as it is patched 
to change the session path? I appreciate it's not Debian's fault that 
upstream shipped a broken configuration file, but the fix is fairly simple.

-- 
Paul Waring
http://www.pwaring.com

Message #20 received at 652872@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>

To: Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net>, 652872@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#652872: closed by Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> (register_long_arrays was removed from PHP 5.4)

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:10:02 +0200

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net> wrote:

> Can the php.ini file not be patched to fix this, just as it is patched to
> change the session path? I appreciate it's not Debian's fault that upstream
> shipped a broken configuration file, but the fix is fairly simple.
>

Not really, as the default for this directive is "On", so removing or
commenting the line would actually turn this feature on instead of having
the warning disappear.

5.4 will not be in squeeze (maybe as a backport), but only wheezy will have
5.4 officially.

Kaplan

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