On Tue, Apr 8, 2014, at 14:27, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:49:08 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > On Mon, April 7, 2014 11:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > Please remove the Depends: php5-json from php itself. > > > PHP should not depend on any of its extensions; people > > > can rather do that themselves. (Actually, this is an > > > issue in every version that had this Depends.) > > > > The dependency exists for transitional reasons: the functionality in the > > extension used to be in core, so the dependency guarantees that upgrades > > will not regress in functionality and applications will suddenly break. It > > can be weakened after one release cycle. > > > Wouldn't it work with just a Recommends?
Haven't you seen the shitstorm that happened on the net when we had just Recommends? I did :(. So technically it's the easiest solution, but socially it's not. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
