I think adding the fix to a package in backports is a good compromise.
I wouldn't even suggest necessarily upgrading PHP to a newer version,
just fixing this obvious bug. I don't disagree with your concern that
changing this behavior now may affect people that have already had to
work around it, b
Can someone please fix this bug? As Jakob pointed out, this is NOT the
intended behavior of PHP, hence why the upstream developers have fixed
this regression in 5.2.5. It doesn't make sense to leave this broken in
this (and only this) release of Ubuntu, especially for an LTS server
release.
This
