tags 458436 +wontfix severity 458436 wishlist thank you On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 23:00, Josip Rodin <j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net> wrote: > severity 458436 normal > thanks > > Hi, > >> severity 458436 wishlist >> thanks >> >> Since the PEAR packages provided by de Debian package are >> updated/upgraded this is not a bug but a feature request. >> Your suggestion on using debconf shouldn't be followed because debconf >> shouldn't be used for those kind of things, NEWS.Debian should be used >> instead. > > First off, please use the right address when you wish to talk to submitters, > your message never reached me because it was sent to the bug address only. > > I disagree on the wish part - the whole purpose of the pear package is to > get those external PEAR packages. If pear is used to put those files on > users' systems, it also has the responsibility to take care of them once > they're there. The tool itself does do that, but the package doesn't > properly integrate with it. If we lower the bar for package quality to > the level where one only has to ship the binaries and be done with it, > then integration of software features with package features is a "wish", > but it's 2008...
If you install custom packages into /usr/local/ using gcc as a compiler, you also don't get a warning when shared library is upgraded. That's exactly same situation as with PEAR package. If you install anything by hand, then it's your responsibility as a system administrator to get them upgraded. Thus I am here with Raphael on a wishlisting this bug. PEAR was not really made to integrate well packaged (/usr) and external (/usr/local) packages, so it's very hard to solve this. This said we would certainly welcome a patch which would allow us to manage packaged and non-packaged PEAR package separately, but I think this is something which needs to be done upstream. 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
