Package: phpmyadmin Version: 4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal I am running Debian testing.
I made a fresh install of lighttpd and did not change its configuration or enable any modules. Then I installed phpmyadmin and asked it to configure automatically for lighttpd. This caused lighttpd to be unable to start. I checked the log and found this message: Jan 06 08:44:06 saturn lighttpd[339062]: /usr/bin/php-cgi: No such file or directory Jan 06 08:44:06 saturn systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION I think that this is because the postinst script in the phpmyadmin package enables the lighttpd fastcgi-php module: lighty-enable-mod phpmyadmin auth fastcgi fastcgi-php But this module needs to have /usr/bin/php-cgi available, and phpmyadmin doesn't depend on the php-cgi package. Note, though, that the description for the php-cgi package says this: "Note that MOST users probably want the php-fpm package that provide FastCGI support." So I think that, rather than phpmyadmin adding a dependency on php-cgi, it would be better for phpmyadmin to add a dependency on php-fpm and enable the fastcgi-php-fpm module in its postinst. Let me know if I can provide any further information. Thank you, James Dietrich
