installs smbclient.ini to wrong directory when used with php 7

[Anchal Nigam]

[Impact]

 * php-smbclient installs its .ini file in a non-standard location and thus will not be available to the PHP7.0 core.

[Test Case]

 * Install php-smbclient, see if the smbclient.ini file is in /etc/php/mods-available/ (incorrect) or /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/ (correct).

[Regresion Potential]

 * The primary chance for regression is if a user edited /etc/php/mods-available/smbclient.ini but didn't realize the file was still being used. In that case, dpkg will notice the obsolete conffile is modified and save it as /etc/php/mods-available/smbclient.ini.dpkg-bak and the user can copy the contents to the correct location (which will be created from the package defaults). I believe this is fairly unlikely and has a clear workaround.

 * If a user manually copied the ini file to the correct location, and edited it, the rebuilt package should not modify it.

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Hello.

I have php 7.0 installed. I installed php-smbclient but it gives an error that /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/smbclient.ini is missing.

It turns out that the php-smbclient package installs the file in /etc/php/mods-available/smbclient.ini.

To fix I had to copy /etc/php/mods-available/smbclient.ini to /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/smbclient.ini and then re-install php-smbclient.

Thank you!
_Nacho

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Thank you for filing this bug report!

On 16.10:

$ apt-file list php-smbclient
php-smbclient: /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/smbclient.ini
php-smbclient: /usr/lib/php/20151012/smbclient.so
php-smbclient: /usr/share/doc/php-smbclient/changelog.Debian.gz
php-smbclient: /usr/share/doc/php-smbclient/copyright

So needs a backport accordingly back to 16.04. Investigating!

[Anchal Nigam (imthenachoman)]

@Nish: You are welcome!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Anchal, or anyone else affected,

Accepted php-smbclient into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-smbclient/0.8.0~rc1-2build1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[MemphiZ (memphiz-6)]

Version 0.8.0~rc1-2: Fix works!

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Note that the version to test is 0.8.0~rc1-2build1. Manually making a change with the existing xenial version (0.8.0~rc1-2) is incorrect.

[MemphiZ (memphiz-6)]

Sorry! Verified using xenial-proposed.

php-smbclient:
  Installed: 0.8.0~rc1-2build1
  Candidate: 0.8.0~rc1-2build1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.0~rc1-2build1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.0~rc1-2 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package php-smbclient - 0.8.0~rc1-2build1

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php-smbclient (0.8.0~rc1-2build1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to fix conffile location with updated dh-php
    (LP: #1579034).
    - No maintscript is needed, as dh-php handles this already.

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:41:07 -0700

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for php-smbclient has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.