Cyconet Blog » PHP http://blog.waja.info Just a place to be! Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ [bpo] Couple new packages uploaded http://blog.waja.info/2010/04/28/bpo-couple-new-packages-uploaded/ http://blog.waja.info/2010/04/28/bpo-couple-new-packages-uploaded/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:22:58 +0000 cyco http://blog.waja.info/?p=333 In the last days I uploaded several (new) packages to backports.org:

A new haproxy 1.4.4-1~bpo50+1 package is in preparation and needs testing before uploading. You can find the package here.

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Anyways … Christian Perrier started a review and translation process of ipplans debconf templates by the debian-i18n contributors. The templates was in really bad conditions, most of it was copied over from gallery2 and I did know that they wasn’t so good. Thanks for all your work, when the process is over I’m proud to include your really nice work.

Two other packages got updates. php-suhosin got new upstream release after months which fixes the broken perdir/.htaccess support. Unfortunatly I missed the release (cause there is no announcement list and there was no watch file) unless Raphael Geissert did leave a note. I integrated the new VCS and homepage stuff also and formorer did fix some minor issues. So we can hopefully upload now (when it arrives testing) the first package to backport.org and sleep little bit better, when using PHP on stable.
nagios-plugins also got updated. Since Seanius seems really busy (like allways), nobody did really took care of the package. In October it got two CVE which was solved via NMU by the testing-security team, also two new upstream releases where available. So I droped the obsolete patches, integrated new once, did make the new shiny lintian a bit more happy, some minor fixes and queued the package to Seanius. ;)
You can expect both packages on backport.org soon. My other (comaintained) packages will get updated to latest policy and VCS/homepage guidelines in the near future. Actually I’ve to prioritize what to do with the left time slots. :/

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You can do this by compiling your php and all extension from source without LFS enabled, but here you have to care about bugs, regressions and exploits for your own.
An other solution is to rebuild the packages from etch with LFS disabled. I’ve done this with the source packages of php4 and php5 from etch. Additionaly I did backport php-suhosin from unstable against this php packages for php4 and php5.

Packages are available at http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/special/ or via

deb http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian etch-special-cyconet main non-free contrib

If there are any DSA popping up, you can expect updates with a short delay. Please keep in mind, that you cant install php extension directly from etch. You need to rebuild them against php[45]-dev with disabled LFS. Other php packages may apear later.

Update: We migrated a customer system with Zend Optimizer to etch. To my suprise, it was working with latest version of Zend Optimizer out of the box with php4. Can’t say anything for php5, cause there are some modifications needed, until the applications are working with php5.
Maybe anybody can verify this with php5?
Until all works well with stock php[45], I wont maintain the packages mentioned above.

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