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

[Ariel]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Lior Kaplan wrote:

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

>> 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).

Please put it back? I need it! I've been searching for a package like this 
for over a year! And I was just about to program it myself when I stumbled 
across this.

>> 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

libhdate-python made it to stable so that's not a fair comparison. This 
is a server package, and servers virtually never run testing.

Please put it back. It works perfectly, so there is no extra maintenance
for you.

 	-Ariel