Patience, young padawan: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=php-json
The sparc buildd just hasn't built the package yet. Ondřej Surý On 9. 6. 2013, at 3:00, Mitch Halmu <mi...@netside.net> wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > While it is my understanding that package php5-json will provide the > missing json.so shared library extension, this package is not available > for architecture sparc: > > # apt-get install php5-json > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package php5-json is a virtual package provided by: > php5-common 5.4.4-15 [Not candidate version] > > E: Package 'php5-json' has no installation candidate > # dpkg -l|grep php5-common > ii php5-common 5.5.0~rc2+dfsg-2 > sparc Common files for packages built from the php5 source > # php --version > PHP 5.5.0RC2 (cli) (built: Jun 3 2013 10:50:14) > Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group > Zend Engine v2.5.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies > with Zend OPcache v7.0.2-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2013, by Zend > Technologies > # php -r 'json_decode ("{}");' > PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decode() in Command line > code on line 1 > > This is the newly upgraded php5 version without json support, which broke > quite a few S/W packages that use php json calls. Will a port for sparc be > made available in the repos, or do we need to compile our own packages > from source? > > Cheers, > > Mitch Halmu > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint