Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Omer,

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:21:38PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote:
> Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing
> (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following:
> 
> php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * The Suhosin patch is now disabled in the default build.
> 
>   If you want to re-enable it again for your installation, you can
>   set the option PHP5_SUHOSIN=yes in debian/rules and recompile PHP.
> 
>  -- Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:39:36 +0100
> 
> Does anyone know why did the packers decide to reverse the previous
> policy of installing PHP5 with the Suhosin patch by default?

See http://lwn.net/Articles/479716/ for the full story.

baruch

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