[TYPO3-debian] php 5.2.1 on Debian 4.0?

[Stig Nørgaard Færch]

Michael Stucki skrev:
> Hi Stig,
> 
>>> Debian 4.0 (Etch) ships with PHP 5.2.0 patched with some security
>>> updates. Why do you need 5.2.1?
>> So that +etch1 in 5.2.0-8+etch1 means that it's not 5.2.0 straight, but
>> a 5.2.0 with some patches added??
> 
> Well, I thought you know how Debian works. Yes of course, they won't stay
> for 2 years with an unpatched version. Just look at the changelog of the
> php5 package for example:
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/php5/php5_5.2.0-8+etch1/changelog

Well, 5.2.0 isn't that old. But what might be the reason that they don't 
implement the newest 5.2.1? Are they affraid it isn't secure enough?

>> Anyway - the reason I'm asking is that I had some problems in the
>> extension manager with php 5.2.0 on a Trustix Box. It was a memory leak
>> bug. When Trustix released php 5.2.1 - the problem was solved.
> 
> Seems so, see change in build 8:
> | Backported a patch from upstream CVS to fix a rather nasty
> | memory leak in zend_alloc (closes: #402506).

Thanks Michael. You were very helpful!

/Stig