php7.0 is not in 17.10 (moved to php7.1). It was fixed in Debian in 7.0.8-3.
Backporting the fix to 16.04 in the SRU we are currently doing to 7.0.18. ** Also affects: php7.0 (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: php7.0 (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: php7.0 (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: php7.0 (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: php7.0 (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: php7.0 (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: (unassigned) => Nish Aravamudan (nacc) ** Changed in: php7.0 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: php7.0 (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of नेपाली भाषा समायोजकहरुको समूह, which is subscribed to Xenial. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu 16.04 Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689646 Title: Installing libapache2-mod-php7.0 doesn't enable PHP module Status in php7.0 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in php7.0 source package in Xenial: Triaged Status in php7.0 source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Status in php7.0 source package in Zesty: Fix Released Bug description: Steps to reproduce (on Xenial): 1) install libapache2-mod-php7.0 (note the warning/error) apt install libapache2-mod-php7.0 Setting up libapache2-mod-php7.0 (7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4) ... Warning: Could not load Apache 2.4 maintainer script helper. 2) apache isn't even running ps aux| grep apache # returns nothing 3) the apache2 packages was not pulled in, only apache2-bin dpkg -l| grep -w apache2 On Trusty, "apt install libapache2-mod-php5" was our way to setup PHP and have the MPM prefork enabled. I'm not sure if that was the wrong way and it worked by accident but this behavior change broke our tooling. Additional information: # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Release: 16.04 # apt-cache policy libapache2-mod-php7.0 apache2-bin libapache2-mod-php7.0: Installed: 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 Candidate: 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 Version table: *** 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 7.0.4-7ubuntu2 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages apache2-bin: Installed: 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.1 Candidate: 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.1 Version table: *** 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.4.18-2ubuntu3 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: libapache2-mod-php7.0 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-78.99-generic 4.4.62 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-78-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 9 19:58:26 2017 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: php7.0 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php7.0/+bug/1689646/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators Post to : group.of.nepali.translators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp