[Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#684382: Bug#684382: PHP bindings for libhdate

[Lior Kaplan]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Ariel <asdebian at dsgml.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Lior Kaplan wrote:
>
>  The php binding were dropped, as in we don't build and provide them any
>> more. This is due to lack of use (judging by the popcon statistics).
>>
>
> But why drop them? They work perfectly. Is there any harm in leaving them
> there?
>

As I said, lack of use. No harm in keeping them, just work due to PHP
related chanes (at that time it was work on PHP 5.4).


> And I don't understand how you can use popcon to track it considering
> libhdate-php didn't even exist in squeeze. In fact, as far as I can tell
> libhdate-php has never existed in debian at all.
>

That's becuase the package never made it to stable, but it was there
between October 2010 and April 2012 (see the changelog of the source
package). Let just say it had less users than the libhdate-python users in
this graph: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libhdate

Kaplan
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