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#5 Re: Dotdeb.org & planning to get to Etch Posted by Anonymous (195.166.xx.xx) on Tue 17 Apr 2007 at 09:25 Well the reasons are mainly related to Dotdeb more than the upgrade. DD seemed to start shipping broken PHP5 packages at 5.2, in particular, problems with the XML parsers. All my WP RSS outputs broke and so did a meta search engine we wrote. That was only recently though, however pecl has never worked on the server and MySQL would suffer frequent InnoDb corruption (although that's probably not actually DD's fault) I had to spend probably a few days hacking a bunch of our stuff because PHP5 was stuffed, and of course I immediately had to un-hack it all as soon as I went back to Debian. On the upgrade notes, all I noticed was that my Apache config went haywire (missing modules, no idea what happened), and that of course Apache wouldn't start because libapache2-mod-php5 & friends were a newer version number than the one Debian ships, so course they weren't reverted. I managed to get it all sorted in the end. Overall my experience with Dotdeb was that the packages were not of the same meticulous quality that Debian ships and that you were left a bit in the dark when you had problems.

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