Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-php-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi, It would be nice to warn maintainers if their package (build-)depend on composer: it’s most likely an error. Composer is a PHP tool to install PHP packages (like pip for Python, or npm for Node.js), and should not be pulled as a (build-)dependency: we have other ways to deal with composer packages like dh_phpcomposer(1) (from pkg-php-tools) and phpab(1) to generate a static autoloader. Since not all PHP related packages are maintained under the usual PHP PEAR (and Composer) Maintainers umbrella, it should help maintainers not aware of the usual conventions to do the right thing® (and eventually maintain their package with the dedicated team). Regards David P.-S.: I do maintain a package build-depending on composer, as used during the testsuite, hence the proposal to make this a warning rather than an error.
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