Dear release team and developer community, due to changes in the mime-support package, upgrade of systems serving PHP websites through CGI will not be automatic. There is http://bugs.debian.org/674089 (critical) where the issue is discussed, and I would like to reassign it to the release notes. Please let me know your thoughts about this.
In summary: - PHP scripts can be executed by Apache httpd through libapache2-mod-php5 or php5-cgi. Debian recommends libapache2-mod-php5, but there are still thousands of installations wich report the use of php5-cgi according to the Popularity Contest statistics. - In Squeeze, using default configurations, files with ".php" in their name such as "foo.php.jpeg" are executed as PHP scripts by the Apache web servers runing PHP scripts through php5-cgi. - To solve that problem, the media (MIME) type for PHP has been removed from /etc/mime.types (http://bugs.debian.org/589384). - This breaks the websites executing PHP scripts through php5-cgi, and a solution is being be documented in the php5 package's NEWS file. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php.git;a=commitdiff;h=f7a6351c620075a9d2a551fbed38ea26919f0d94 This will interrupt upgrade of servers using php5-cgi, but to avoid surprises, the rough consensus in #674089 is also to document the same information in the release notes. Therefore, I am probably going to reassign #674089 to the release-notes pseudo package, unless a consensus emerges that this is not the proper solution. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120819021726.gc20...@falafel.plessy.net