Excerpts from Ondřej Surý's message of Thu May 26 08:57:57 -0700 2011: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 19:23, Clint Byrum <cl...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Package: php5 > > Version: 5.3.5-1 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > > Usertags: origin-ubuntu oneiric ubuntu-patch > > > > > > Forwarded from Ubuntu: > > > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/634359 > > > > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following: > > > > Binary package hint: php-pear > > > > Quoting from the bug report: > >> Most of PECL packages require /usr/bin/phpize and some other php5-dev > >> files to get installed/compiled (i.e. pecl/fribidi), but php5-dev is > >> not always installed. > > Are there any PECL packages which don't require php5-dev? The most > elegant solution would be to move /usr/bin/pecl to php5-dev and maybe > add some note about missing php5-dev when installing PECL package via > pear install. > > Or what about adding those two prints to PEAR/Builder.php: > > $err = $this->_runCommand($this->config->get('php_prefix') > . "phpize" . > $this->config->get('php_suffix'), > array(&$this, 'phpizeCallback')); > if (PEAR::isError($err)) { > return $err; > } > > if (!$err) { > print "If the command failed with 'phpize: not found' then > you need to install php5-dev package"; > print "You can do it by running 'apt-get install php5-dev' > as a root user"; > return $this->raiseError("`phpize' failed"); > } > > This seems less intrusive then installing php5-dev for all php-pear users. > > What do you think? >
Interesting idea. I do like the idea of allowing sysadmins to keep the number of -dev packages to a minimum on production systems. The reason pecl is being considered as a runtime command and not -dev I think is because its for installing stuff that isn't available as a .deb, so its most likely use case is on a runtime host, but one that probably doesn't mind keeping php5-dev installed, or that will install it just to get the .so and then can remove it without removing all of PEAR. I like it, and I'd drop the Ubuntu change upon the one you specify above being made in Debian. One thing, how about after these changes, php-pear adds a Recommends: php5-dev, so that the casual user will still obtain the functionality. This would also help Ubuntu users who already have the Depends: line not be surprised when they install php-pear and expect pecl to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
