Tho whoever is interested in PHP. TL;DR Make PHP packaging sustainable or all versioned php packages will be deleted and replaced by a single php package tracking head.
The current model of packaging PHP runtime is not sustainable. The dependencies are a complete mess, packages (build)require php-something, but none of the versioned phpXY-something provides this. This leads to a lot of manual labor when rebuilding php-pecl packages (run this magical command for managing installed deps and pray it works). This also leades to even worse mess for PEAR packages. The dependency generator needs /usr/bin/php and it gets a random one, if it gets anything at all. If there is a real need to keep old versions of php, then whoever needs this, please figure out a packang model that won't require enormous cognitive load on anyone trying to deal with randmon php packages. You have been warned, Your maintainer -- Jan Rękorajski | PLD/Linux SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
