Great effort put on this matter, thanks!
I'll run some tests regarding this.
I find odd the need to use the restart, the reload/force-reload should perform
the same action except of course for the immediate killing of all the
connections.
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Installing PHP5 performs a reload to apache instead
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: php5
Seen in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
When installing the PHP5 package I see the following behavior:
Selecting previously deselected package php5.
Unpacking php5 (from .../php5_5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up php5-common (5.2.6.dfs