[php-maint] Bug#627569: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/share/php/Mail/mimeDecode.php on line 324

[Gary V]

Package: php-mail-mimedecode
Version: 1.5.0-3

There appears to be a PHP 5.3 deprecation error in
/usr/share/php/Mail/mimeDecode.php:

I'm using a PHP program called MailZu that is used as a quarantine
management system for amavisd-new and when a quarantined message is
displayed, I get this error in /var/log/apache2/error.log:

[Sat May 21 18:20:55 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.41] PHP
Deprecated:  Assigning the return value of new by reference is
deprecated in /usr/share/php/Mail/mimeDecode.php on line 324, referer:
https://msa.example.com/mailzu/messagesAdmin.php?t_criterion=contains&t_string=example.com&m_criterion=contains&m_string=&f_criterion=contains&f_string=&s_criterion=contains&s_string=&ctype=A&search_action=Search

Line 324 reads:  $obj = &new Mail_mimeDecode($body);

I have read that this may possibly be resolved by removing the & in
the front of &new. Doing so does appear to resolve the issue for me.
For comparison, I noticed that line Line 196 reads:  $obj = new
Mail_mimeDecode($params['input']);

While I'm not a PHP programmer, it appears to me it might be OK to
remove the & from in front of &new as it is done elsewhere in the
program.

Gary V