On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:58, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > For the packaging of phc in debian, which I would like to have > packaged, we need some way to allow the embedding of php. > I will look into packaging of them both together and uploading them to > debian mentors. Really php embedded could be it own package like > discussed.
That's the worst idea I have ever heard in this case. You would double the work required by security team. Every security issue which hit the PHP would need two updates - one in main php5 package and second in php5-embedded. I am strongly opposed to uploading php-mebedded as separate package just to circumvent the (later) things which was said about embedded SAPI (still experimental in the upstream, no motivation to support yet another SAPI from maintainers). > it should be possible to host the debs produced on debian mentors > server or somewhere else until we have a final solution. I have a much better proposal. Join the PHP5 packaging team (#664595), help with bug squashing in the main package and also dedicate yourself to support php5-embedded. There are already too many "sort-of-orphaned" packages in the Debian where the original maintainer lost the interest in the software and in the package and forgot that he made the upload. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org