[php-maint] PHP 5.2.8 in Lenny

Olivier Bonvalet olivier.bonvalet at daevel.fr
Sun Jan 11 01:29:03 UTC 2009


mmm excuse me, but maybe should I submit directly 2 "dpatch" for the 
debian's package ?

Olivier

Olivier Bonvalet a écrit :
> Hello Sean,
>
> thanks for your answer, I understand the Debian's position but it's 
> annoying for me ;) (our framework crash PHP at each page on Debian 
> Lenny).
>
> So I found the 2 PHP bugs which concern us, and was fixed by PHP 5.2.7 
> (yes, 5.2.7) :
>
> - http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46157 :
>    It's a small PDO bug, which is not present on Debian Etch. The 
> patch is really short :
>        http://news.php.net/php.cvs/53254
>
> -http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46308 :
>    A memory corruption problem. It seems the bug is present on Etch, 
> but we crash PHP really really less often.
>    I ask on the php-dev mailing list, and it seems the relative patch 
> is this one :
>        
> http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/ZendEngine2/zend_object_handlers.c?r1=1.135.2.6.2.28&r2=1.135.2.6.2.29 
>
>
> I hope this will help. I will file a bug in the Debian BTS, but... 
> there is not a "simple" web form to do that !?
>
> Thanks again,
> Olivier
>
> sean finney a écrit :
>> salut olivier,
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:22:08PM +0100, Olivier Bonvalet wrote:
>>  
>>> I would like to know if there is a problem with the integration of 
>>> PHP 5.2.8 in Lenny : we have some memory corruption problems with 
>>> the 5.2.6 version ( which produce "segmentation faults" and "canari 
>>> free warnings", cf this bug http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46308 ).
>>>     
>>
>> i find it highly doubtful that 5.2.8 will make it into lenny.  5.2.8 was
>> an emergency point release issued one day after 5.2.7 was released, 
>> due to
>> a regression caused in the mix of fixes and features in that new 
>> release.  this is pretty common for php releases and why we usually 
>> wait a bit after a new release before uploading to debian.  also, 
>> because of such an
>> unhealthy mix, we can't make an upload targeted for lenny with such an
>> expectation for further regressions.
>>
>>  
>>> So on the developpement servers we use a recompiled package, between 
>>> the 5.2.6 and 5.2.7. But Lenny is freezed to become the new "debian 
>>> stable release", no ? I hope PHP 5.2.6 will not be on the future 
>>> "debian stable", otherwise we will have a lot of problems on 
>>> production servers.
>>>
>>> But maybe I can help for something ?
>>>     
>>
>> if you're experiencing the bug above, the best course of action i can 
>> recommend
>> is to see if you can find the fix for the above bug on cvs.php.net 
>> (they have
>> a commits mailing list which might help).  if you can find the fix, 
>> it's much
>> more likely that we can include this patch in an upload targeted for 
>> lenny.
>>
>> otherwise, you could wait for a backport to show up, but you won't 
>> likely see
>> that until some time after lenny releases.
>>
>> in any case you should also file a bug in the debian BTS about this 
>> problem so
>> that it is documented and tracked.
>>
>>
>>     sean
>>   
>
>




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