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phpmyadmin package

PHPMyAdmin requires mbstring

Bug #1577482 reported by Richard Laager on 2016-05-02

This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	phpmyadmin (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Nish Aravamudan
	Xenial	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]

* PHPMyAdmin reports run-time errors due to missing functionality from php-xml and php-mbstring, which in prior versions of PHP were packaged with the core.

[Test Case]

* Install phpmyadmin 4.5.4.1-2ubuntu1 and attempt to use the provided web interface, it will fail to load.

[Regression Potential]

* The likelihood of regression is very low, as no code change is being included. Instead, we are simply expressing correctly a run-time dependency of the phpmyadmin source.

[Other Info]

* We have sync'ed the package in Yakkety and a similar change has been made in the version there.

When trying to use PHPMyAdmin without the mbstring extension installed, I get a fatal error on the main page:
"The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration."

This is coming from line 95 in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/common.inc.php:
/**
* Warning about mbstring.
*/
if (! function_exists('mb_detect_encoding')) {
PMA_warnMissingExtension('mbstring', $fatal = true);
}

This is an unconditional check, so this should be a Depends.

See original description

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote on 2016-05-02:

phpmyadmin-mbstring-depends.debdiff Edit (1014 bytes, text/plain)

The attached debdiff solves this problem.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2016-05-02:

The attachment "phpmyadmin-mbstring-depends.debdiff" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issue please contact him.]

tags:

added: patch

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2016-05-03

tags:	added: packaging
Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote on 2016-05-04:

As 16.04 is already released, this will need to go through the SRU process. I have provided a debdiff for Yakkety and once accepted, I will file a SRU request for Xenial.

Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → Nish Aravamudan (nacc)

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote on 2016-05-04:

As an FYI, I have filed a sync request in Yakkety, as our delta can be dropped (Bug # 1578300). Once that occurs, I will selectively backport the updated dependencies to Xenial and file the SRU as mentioned.

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote on 2016-05-04:

Fixed in Yakkety in bug 1578300 so unsubscribing sponsors.

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote on 2016-05-05:

I still had this browser tab open. I guess this is fixed in Yakkety then, and needs a task for Xenial? I'll mark the bug appropriately.

Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Nish Aravamudan (nacc) on 2016-05-10

description:

updated

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote on 2016-05-31:

The yakkety package also adds php-xml to the Depends, shouldn't that also be added to the debdiff in comment #1?

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote on 2016-05-31:

I think that the xml plugin is only used for the exporter. So the application as a whole probably doesn't break if php-xml is missing. But, that said, adding php-xml as a dependency (as in yakkety) seems perfectly fine.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2016-06-07:

#10

I've uploaded this without the php-xml change given that it would probably require a separate bug and test case.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-17: Please test proposed package

#11

Hello Richard, or anyone else affected,

Accepted phpmyadmin into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2 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!

Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote on 2016-06-17:

#12

I installed the built phpmyadmin 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2 on the system where I experienced this problem. PHPMyAdmin is still functioning correctly. I see it has the correct dependency now.

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Rafael Pinilla (gnubyte) wrote on 2016-06-21:

#13

Same problem here on a fresh 16.04 install.
I had to apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext libapache2-mod-php7.0
and then restart apache.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-06-28:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package phpmyadmin - 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2

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phpmyadmin (4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

* Depend on php-mbstring. (LP: #1577482)

-- Richard Laager <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:00:35 -0700

Changed in phpmyadmin (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-28: Update Released

#15

The verification of the Stable Release Update for phpmyadmin 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.