On Thursday 05 of May 2005 02:30, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Jelmer Jaarsma wrote:
> > Package: phpmyadmin
> > Version: 4:2.6.2-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Upon the upgrade of phpmyadmin the apache2.conf was rewritten to only
> > include *.conf files from the conf/ subdir. Other packages such as
> > gallery and amavis-stats put a symlink there to include their config
> > file but they do not end in .conf. As a result their config files will
> > be ignored.
>
> Modifying the apache config from phpmyadmin in such a way is just evil.
> It can break other applications, and now I read about this, I know the
> causes of some bugs on phpbb2 now too. apache2.conf is also a conffile:
> only changed by admin, this behaviour would be serious then when done on
> one's own conf files, but definitely grave or critical when done on
> other, more general packages.
>
> Changing the default way of including in apache from one single web
> application package just because you couldn't convince the apache
> maintainers of your wishlist change, in a policy violating way, is...
> mindboggling.

I'm trying to make a workaround for broken apache2. I hope the debian-webapps 
mailing lists will clarify such issues.

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