> I have been coordinating the resolution of the bugs about the PHP media types > with the different players including you and the release team, and we reached > a > consensus. Then you suddenly changed your mind overnight, and went for > another > solution without contacting all the parties.
I did not change my mind, it's a _different_ regression. Although you have merged them in BTS before and they have a same cause - removal of (magic) PHP media types, they are different bugs with different impact. * The fix for first bug #674089 (e.g. with impact on PHP CGI) is still in the place in the php5 package (5.4.4-5). * The fix for second bug #670945 (e.g. http://localhost/file not caught by mod_negotiation) was fixed in mime-support 3.52-1.1. > In that context, I do not trust the relevance of your changes and will revert > them. Again please give a technical reasons for the revert. Using feeling (or trust) as a base for decisions is not very helpful. You didn't provided any technical reason why _not_ fix this in mime-support package, although I have politely asked you. When there's disagreement between maintainers, it's always good to stick to technical arguments. > If you want to add application/x-php in /etc/mimes.types, please provide an > explanation of why it is not possible to use in Debian the same way as in > other distributions which do not require that media type association by > default. Maybe they don't support mod_negotiation for PHP, maybe whoever know, Debian differs in so many ways from other distributions that I don't really see a need for this explaination. And I personally don't care about distributions, I care about our users who are experiencing regression from squeeze. Also you keep repeating this, but I have already shown you that we significantly differ from other distributions; Fedora for example doesn't have text/x-python and yet you don't required python maintainers to explain why it's needed. > [...snip the part about adding PHP MIME-Type just to Apache 2...] > Please explain why it is not suitable for you, Because it fixes this bug only in Apache 2, but addition in mime-support would provide the mapping in all other places which uses mime.types file. I don't see a reason[*] why we would want to fix this only in Apache when we can fix on system wide level. (* - e.g. any breakage this will cause). I would willingly accept removal if you can show me that the addition of (text|application)/x-php will cause some bad side effect. > and please also provide some hints that there will not be side effects, such > as (but not limited to) annoying all Subversion users by suddenly having > their PHP code considered binary and unsuitable for diffs, etc. mime-support package had the application/x-httpd-php* mappings up to 3.52-1 for a long time and nobody complained, right? I am pretty confident that adding different MIME-Type won't break anything (which wasn't already broken before elsewhere and nobody really noticed - or there would be a bug report). O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
